Fact17: What did Cowboys call the rope they used to catch animals with?

Fact 17: What did Cowboys call the rope they used to catch animals with?

The answer is they called it a rope. Films and books called them lassos, Cowboys also never called it a lasso. Films and books used the word lasso because of the Spanish word laso which means snare because the Spanish and Americans used the rope in the same way. The Americans also didn't refer to the act of using rope to catch an animal with rope lassoing they called it roping. Lassos weren't invented by the wild west the ancient Egyptians used them to capture antelopes and wild ox. interestingly the ancient Egyptians didn't do lassoing on horseback they stood on the ground and hide behind bushes to catch there animal by.