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

A onetime Nebraska cowpuncher, he had gone to the University of Michigan to study law.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor.

From Time Magazine Archive

What Ben Lester and the other cowpuncher had said about the stallion seemed to be true.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Emerson, Alice B.