In "Rodeo -- New York City" Robert Frank pictures a thin cowboy bending his head to light his cigarette.

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Another writer, James Cloyd Bowman, wrote an award-winning children's book called "Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time."

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They stopped laughing when they found he could do the hard work of a cowboy as well as any of them.

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Because of his clothing, you might expect the cowboy to be in a rural environment with a horse nearby.

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At the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, instead of chairs, they can sit on saddles as if riding a horse.

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A huge cowboy,nine feet tall, took one look at Bill and said in a shaky voice, "I was the boss.

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A listener hears the mournful feeling cowboys had for the prairie in this song called, "The Dying Cowboy."

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People come to Jackson Hole,Wyoming, from around the world to enjoy the best of cowboy and mountain culture.

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These include the cowboy of the Wild West and famous Hollywood actors like James Dean and Marlon Brando in the nineteen fifties.

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This is a cowboy. They were actually drawing influence from Italian puppetry which is this very realistic puppetry.

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He worked as a cattleman for several years, then wrote about the heroic life of the cowboy in a book called "The Virginian."

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This week in our series, Kay Gallant tells what life was like for the early American cowboy.

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Some say he invented cowboy songs to help calm the cattle and make the cowboy's life easier.

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A cowboy was as proud of his horse as he was of his skill in riding him.

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In the summer, visitors can go to a rodeo to see competitions based on traditional cowboy skills.

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He is leaving for college. Cowboy Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr.and Mrs.Potato Head and all his other toys end up at a day care center.

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She will sell you a cowboy hat made to fit the exact size of your head.

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In another event, the cowboy throws a rope around the neck of a young cow.

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Another easterner who came west to learn about the cowboy was the artist Frederick Remington.

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In Oklahoma City,we can visit the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center.

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His interest in cowboy music led him to research and collect examples of cowboy songs.

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Around nineteen hundred, a teenage cowboy named James Larkin White began to explore the cave.

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In nineteen ten he published a book called "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads."

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But the story of the cowboy and his difficult life would not be forgotten.

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He took two real cowboy boots and made a hard form using their shape.

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Let us go back to the ceramic cowboy boots we talked about earlier.

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the cowboy cried out. Well that was all Bill needed to hear.

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The cowboy who does this in the shortest amount of time wins.

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The words "Wild West" bring to mind just one character: the cowboy.

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