cowboy story

Example Sentences

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The national media reveled in an honest-to-goodness cowboy story.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘See if you can’t bring me a story with something like a barbecue sandwich in it. But if you can’t find none of them I’d like a cowboy story.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

If you like a really good Western cowboy story, then this line is made expressly for you.

From Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur by Taylor, Edward C.

Paul was in a cowboy costume, playing a scene in the cowboy story, which seemed to be giving more and more trouble as it proceeded.

From The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real by Hope, Laura Lee

So he went on to explain: he knew the cowboy story was a corker, and another, of Arizona, described an Indian fight in the Bad Lands that was capital.

From The Title Market by Soper, J. H. Gardner