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

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

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

What right had an indigent pauper of a cowpuncher to aspire to a heaven like this?

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank