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It is mighty degrading to the cowboy profession to call plotting, peddling global arms dealers "cowboys." Nowadays, any wild adventurer may be called a cowboy even if he doesn't know a horse from a mule. Recently, critics of Lt. Col. Oliver North's scheming...

MOST NEWSPAPERS have been calling them fat cats. The Daily Express's leader went one better. "Barclays' executives cannot afford to act like cowboys", it said. This cuts them down to size. Fat cats drive, or are driven in, softly purring limousines; cowboys are...

On the morning of September 11, 1857, a wagon train of 120 men, women and children en route from Arkansas to California were murdered near Cedar City, Utah. The killers, history suggests, were likely God-fearing Mormons. The Mountain Meadows Massacre, as the bloody event is...

Republican governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas says Hillary Clinton will be tough for Republicans to defeat in 2008. He says Hillary has "rock-star quality that she brings just by walking into a room and sucking the oxygen out of it." As does Newt Gingrich in...

In the following essay, Taylor examines the rise of the traditional cowboy persona over the course of the nineteenth century, focusing on the evolving depictions of the cowboy in popular culture. Taylor theorizes that America's perception of itself can be traced through the years by examining the changing image of the cowboy.

In the following essay, Fenster contends that in Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910) John A. Lomax intentionally emphasized the romantic notion of the singing cowboy, and thus contributed significantly to the popularization of this almost mythical image.

In the following excerpt, Stanley offers a review of the development of cowboy poetry, beginning in the years following the Civil War and continuing through the early twentieth century.