cowboys

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Hollywood was founded by daredevils, from the cowboys who galloped here to become stuntmen, to the small-town girls who bucked the pressure to get married and moved west to chase a one-in-a-million dream.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Today, the ranch’s cowboys can only examine each herd every other day, and that is with employees like equipment operators and fence crews handling some of their daily chores.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

At the time, however, the frontier – with its rugged cowboys, miners and railroad men – defined American manhood.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The Mexican cowboys became adept at everything from calving to branding to overseeing the kind of long-distance cattle drives that later became a staple of the western.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Hell, if all those cowboys had to go on was some story Floyd Wells had told, then there wasn’t a lot to worry about.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote