A river in southwest Texas and New Mexico; used historically in cowboy lore, as in 'Pecos Bill,' a legendary tall-tale character of the Old West.
From Spanish 'río de Pecos,' likely from an indigenous language. The name appears in Spanish colonial records from the 1600s.
Pecos Bill became the American version of Tall Tale heroes—a completely fictional cowboy with impossible adventures, created to explain why the American West seemed so wild and untamable!
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