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Retroterm of the Day: Maverick.

May 27, 2009 //  by David Keyes

In the mid-19th century, on Texas’s Gulf Coast, Samuel Maverick was given four hundred head of cattle to settle a debt.  Maverick had little interest in ranching, and didn’t even brand his calves. As a result, in southwest Texas, “mavericks” referred to unbranded cattle.  This term subsequently was applied to independent human beings as well. They were, and are, mavericks.

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