cowpuncher

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After all, it is a snappy cowpuncher variation on Woody Guthrie’s “Dusty Old Dust/So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh” with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, the folk legend’s old musical partner, singing along.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

He is both corrupt and pure, a dynastic potentate in a helicopter and a solitary cowpuncher in the saddle.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2018

A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens.

From Time Magazine Archive

For more than 20 years, Best, a onetime cowpuncher, has run Canon City's stone prison with an iron fist.

From Time Magazine Archive

You haven't heard of a lone cowpuncher about my size that's been holding up any banks or treasure trains, have you?

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank