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

Henry Blanton is an alias for the 40-year-old cowpuncher whom Kramer selected to sit for her portrait of yet another vanishing American.

From Time Magazine Archive

This year's exhibitors included a bartender, several housewives, a cowpuncher, a brassiere manufacturer, an Internal Revenue agent.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a rare thing to meet a cowpuncher who could not turn out biscuits of some degree of edibility, but we had a master hand.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis