Gaucho literature is a genre of Latin American literature that became popular during the Romantic era. It centers on tales of the Argentine gaucho, or cowboy. Gaucho literature includes Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s Civilización y barbarie: Vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga (1845; Life in the Argentine Republic in the Age of the Tyrants), José Hernández’s Martín Fierro (1872–79; Martín Fierro: An Epic of the Argentine, also translated as The Gaucho Martin Fierro), Rafael Obligado’s Santos Vega (1887), and Estanislao del Campo’s Fausto (1866).
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