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To pay tribute to that spirit, Cricle Y saddles created the John Wayne "Courage" saddle- and what a fitting tribute it is! The saddle is modeled after one of John Wayne's own and features intricate hand-tooled floral designs, engraved brass rigging, sterling siver Mexican Peso conchos, and a inividually numbered collector's plate on the cantle back.

Or our version of promoting eco friendliness in Big Sky Country Montana... riding the horses down to the mailbox rather than gas guzzling it. The snows finally subsided and I figured I wanted to ride out and why not combine fun with function and get the mail... Round trip it's just over three miles, but add in some "hill equalizers" if Picken needed and who knows.

I found this website advertised in American Cowboy Magazine. The logo caught my eye and I just love it. If you like horses pay them a visit, they have lots of cool stuff!

My great, great grandfather on my dad's side was a blacksmith. That side of the family is very much rooted in the Old West Cowboy history. It's evident that it still lives on strongly whenever we gather for Easter at a remote ranch for several days of camping and celebrating. While we don't own horses any longer, something stirs in our blood when we're out in the monte.

In Texas, cattle reign. So, Texas BBQ showcases beef in honor of its cowboy history. Barbecue-beef brisket and short ribs abound. It’s been many years since I lived in Texas, so I don’t recall the specific venues where I first gave in to the siren call of tender beef in peppery sauces, but I do recall the delight. And it forever changed me. Since then, I have tirelessly ventured far and wide in my quest for BBQ and it has brought me from the bovine to the porcine.

3.) Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is a cartoon version of what Elton John would look like through the eyes of Bernie Taupin who imagined himself as a mixture of “English farm boy and American cowboy”. That idea reminds me of moving from Mt. Clemens to Sterling Heights. The people here were so different from what I was used to. My new friends in Sterling Heights were like Elton John as a magical presence in his outfits and I was like Bernie Taupin looking up in awe in my overalls and cowgirl style pig tails.

Hit the pause button for a moment so this idea can completely sink in: Cigarette marketers cleverly attached, in the public’s mind, two utterly unrelated things: 1) the American cowboy, with all of the powerful feelings that image evokes in us, of independence, self-confidence, wide-open spaces and authentic Americanism, and 2) cigarettes, a stinky, health-destroying waste of money. This legendary advertising campaign targeting men succeeded in transforming market underdog Marlboro (up until then, sold as a women’s cigarette with the slogan “Mild as May”) into the world’s best-selling cigarette.

i have to say, something does seem to be lost (something good?) if we become a nation of disconnected churches, all as autonomous as the inconic american cowboy.

You’ll find recipes from such cowboys as Hopalong Cassidy, Marty Robbins, Jack Elam, Johhny Cash and Wylan Jennings just to name a few.

Four years later, Gene Autry would die, on October 2, 1998. He was buried a hero, an All-American Cowboy. Four years after his death, his beloved Angels would win their first World Series title — and without a twenty-game winner either.

In the current issue of Golf Digest there's a Q&A with Evel Knievel. It's fascinating reading. Knievel is that iconic larger-than-life American cowboy character whom we just don't see much of anymore (not that that is necessarily something to lament - it's certainly not lamentable that we don't see more of Knievel).

They mean this as an insult, of course. They want to imply that Bush is hotheaded, vengeful, and dangerous. A real "shoot first, ask questions later" gunslinger kind of guy. Maybe even an outlaw. But they miss the mark completely. What is a cowboy? President Bush knows. He was raised in Texas, after all. And in Texas we know about cowboys. We learned about cowboys from the Lone Ranger and John Wayne. We grew up reading Louis L'Amour novels and watching Marshall Matt Dillon keep Dodge City safe. We grew up idolizing the American cowboy and all he stands for.

Alex Marshall is a free lance writer in New York that has a pretty thought provoking article on new urbanism. Personally Celebration seemed very Disney weird to me the one time I was there... and I have never been to Kissimmee but have read some of the Florida Cracker Cowboy history of the region.

Hardin first cut a notch on his six shooter when he was a teenager. Talk about your teen angst! His brother practiced law in Comanche and in 1874, John came to town to celebrate his 21st birthday. Lore has it that John, his brother, Joe and some cousins were first at the horse races, then went to get a cool one at the Jack Wright Saloon. Deputy Webb, from nearby Brown County, came into the saloon and John killed him with a single gunshot. The nice cousins then followed suit, and pumped a few more bullet holes into the former Texas Ranger. An angry...