And, indeed, some of the gauchos had what could be called an idiosyncratic concept of time.
The crowd of 15, 896 that saw the Gauchos beat UCLA in September 2010 was the season's biggest.
The problem was that although he knew next to nothing about carpentry, that was more than the gauchos knew.
Activities from Estancia Telken include horse riding, with gauchos (Argentinean cowboys) to ride the open country with you.
The next morning, he spoke with the gauchos and told them that he would be away for a while.
Other gauchos and storekeepers soon joined in these conversations, and sometimes even children came to hear the stories Pereda told.
For once, the gauchos looked at him as if they grasped the significance of his words even better than he did himself.
He spoke to the gauchos gathered in the general store one evening.
Some nights, especially when gauchos from out of town or some disoriented travelling salesman turned up, Pereda felt a powerful desire to start a fight.
When they got back, Pereda ordered his gauchos to strip the publisher to the waist, and they flung him onto a table in the yard.
With the money the cook had brought, he paid his debts and hired a pair of gauchos to repair the roof of the ranch house, which was falling in.
For better or worse, it is a Latin American country, home of the tango (which originated in brothels and gauchos, even if it was later Italianised) as well as of the opera.
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He asked the owner to put the drink on his account, and on his way out, as he passed the young gauchos, he told them to move aside because he was going to spit.
Other nights, he would fall asleep between his two gauchos and dream that his wife was leading their children by the hand and scolding him for the way he had let himself lapse into brutishness.
During the celebration, around 3, 000 gauchos pour into Salta city from the surrounding towns for an evening of dance and music around campfires at the base of San Bernardo Hill, a peak that overlooks the capital.
It is a breathtaking display of equestrian skill and local heritage as the gauchos prance around on horseback while suited in their best traditional clothing, such as bombachas (riding pants), black leather sombreros and boots to match.
By the fireside, some of the gauchos talked about electroshock therapy, while others spoke like professional sports commentators, except that they were commenting on a match played long ago, when they were twenty or thirty and belonged to some gang of hooligans.
Pithy Spanish guitar riffs and flirtatious violin notes erupt to accompany the rhythm, and gauchos (Argentinean cowboys) draped in regional red and black ponchos spring from their chairs to dance, the clack of their boots on the wooden floor echoing around the surrounding multi-coloured canyons.
The way of living he hopes to export isn't the cultural pastiche of gauchos and asados one might encounter at Epcot (though there will be a version of his Buenos Aires tango show), but instead embraces simple ideas, like the indoor-outdoor living in which he revels.
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