To preface, sorry for the awkward title.
To reiterate, I know that North America wasn't the only place with people riding out into the plains and rounding up cattle, and that Argentina had the gauchos on the pampas, but presumably these weren't the only places in the world with major beef industries at the time. While it appears that most of Europe was too small to support the kind of cattle ranching used in the Americas, there were presumably other large regions capable of ranching.
Did other areas of the world, say, Australia or Africa (either from European colonizers or natives, though I'd be especially interested if the latter was true anywhere) use cowboys or cowboy-like workers for their cattle? If so, to what extent did their culture/subculture resemble their Western counterparts?
As an addendum, the trope of the American cowboy seems to have been at least somewhat well-known overseas in the late 1800s. Most (in)famously, the character of Quincey Morris in Dracula was a rough-and-tumble Texan who mentioned spending time in the pampas and carried a Bowie knife at all times. While this image clearly bears some differences to the realities of the actual American cowboy, it seems to indicate a spreading of this image to Europe.
Did the Americans hold a monopoly on this particular literary trope at the time, or were there other versions of the rough-and-tumble cowboy that made it to other nations in the pre-Western-genre-of-movie era? Did say, Spain enjoy tales of gauchos? Did the Brits also hear stories of Australian or Canadian cattle workers? Did other large producers of cattle have their own literature about the adventures of the people who rounded up their livestock?
Thanks in advance!
In Austria there were (and still are) "Senner" (male) and "Sennerinnen" (female). They are looking after sheep and cattle which are sent to alpine pastures during the summer months. The senners live in small cabins right on or close to the pastures all summer long until the "Almabtrieb", a traditional event where the animals are taken back from the Alpine meadows to the villages, often accompagnied by festivities and/or large feasts.
The figure of the "Senner" in literature, music and poetry is not comparable to that of the cowboy. While there are lots of folklore-songs, legends, myths and fairytales and a few movies about them they're not seen as gun-yielding hot-blooded blokes but rather as quiet, calm hermits. Most stories carry a touch of sadness and a hint of romance with them rather than thrill and action. The trope of the "Senner" gets mostly picked up in the genre of the "Heimatfilm" ("homeland-film"), a movie genre that was most popular from the 40s to the 70s and is characterized by its typical tropes and shots (traditional, alps, nature, etc.).