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 Nebraska cowpuncher, he had gone to the University of Michigan to study law.

From Time Magazine Archive

On New Year's Day, Governor George W. P. Hunt, bald and portly, onetime cowpuncher, who might well be called the father of his state, was inaugurated for the sixth time.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Holy Smoke, Bruce, you can't wear an ordinary cowpuncher hat with them varnished shoes an' that there necktie an' that dude suit!"

From Bruce of the Circle A by Titus, Harold