At the haberdashery, they're greeted by four suspicious strangers including a Confederate General (Bruce Dern) and a "cow-puncher" (Michael Madsen).
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Ward's stories open with lines like "I was down in the bunkhouse with an old cow-puncher named Strawberry …" and end with him skinning a mountain lion and eating it.
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" She helped select an avatar for her visitor—"Mabel McCoy the Cow Puncher"—then explained, "It's a weird mix of Wild West and sci-fi, where you're trying to gain muscle, mysticality, and moxie.
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The most influential Western at the turn of the century was " The Virginian ," by Owen Wister, a Harvard graduate who was sent West to toughen up and returned with a quasi-erotic adulation of the cow-puncher—the cowboy.
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A tour of the United States, with recurring checks on the progress of the human fly climbing the Empire State Building. Also featured are jokes and gags on the Everglades, the Wyoming prairies, Alaska, a California prospector, Sioux Indians and a Jerry Colonna-esque (literal) Texas cow-puncher.
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Ames wrote over a dozen novels, primarily Westerns, during the 1910s and 1920s. Some of his works, including the posthumously published The Bladed Barrier, included fantasy themes. While Ames' books were set in the Western United States (the famous Pete, cow-puncher - A Story of the Texas Plains, is one example), it is unclear whether he ever travelled there extensively. His novel Shoe-Bar Stratton was made into the 1922 Western film Catch My Smoke, directed by William Beaudine and featuring actors Tom Mix and Lillian Rich.
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Energetic Egghead is bouncing around, pretending to be a cowboy, until his noise-making gets him kicked out of the boarding house in which he is living by a clerk with a penchant for the minced oath "dad- burnit." While on the street he sees a discarded newspaper advertisement from a ranch in Wyoming, requesting a "cow-puncher." He applies, and, while there, goes through various training exercises, but fails them all. Egghead, having seen his apparent uselessness, begins to leave, but the lead cowboy decides to give him a job: cleaning up after the cows and horses.
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Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 74. After returning East, Remington was sent by Harper's Weekly to cover the 1886 Charleston earthquake. To expand his commission work, he also began doing drawings for Outing magazine. His first year as a commercial artist had been successful, earning Remington $1,200, almost triple that of a typical teacher.Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 81. He had found his life's work and bragged to a friend, "That's a pretty good break for an ex cow-puncher to come to New York with $30 and catch on it 'art'." Peggy & Harold Samuels, Remington: The Complete Prints, Crown Publishers, New York, 1990, p. 13, For commercial reproduction in black-and-white, he produced ink and wash drawings.
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As described in a film magazine, discontented cow puncher Gene Stewart (Farnum) makes a bet that he will marry the next woman who comes to town. Majesty Hammond (Kingston), the sister of a successful ranch owner, arrives that night and Gene in a drunken revel threatens old Padre Marcos (Swickard) with death unless he marries them. He completely cows the young woman into submission and, when he finds out who she is, he sheepishly takes her to the house of her brother's fiance, and then leaves after apologizing for frightening her. She buys the ranch of a Mexican desperado and needs Gene to run it for her, but he has gone with a gang of Mexicans and is too drunk to be appealed to by anyone but Majesty.
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