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

Best-remembered achievement: a pistol-packing cowpuncher from Texas, Bart McMenomey, was one of several U.S. experts who helped raise cattle production from 4,500 head in 1954 to 70,000 today.

From Time Magazine Archive

Textbooks are unable to contain the man who was a civil war unto himself: Eastern aristocrat and Western cowpuncher, intellectual and pugilist, reformer and clubhouse Republican, imperialist and trustbuster, warrior and peacemaker.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down the rough trail rode a big cowpuncher with sun-reddened face and an air of great weariness.

From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto