cowboys

Example Sentences

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There are still plenty of great American cowboys out there—you just have to get out and look for them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

At the time, however, the frontier – with its rugged cowboys, miners and railroad men – defined American manhood.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The Mexican cowboys became adept at everything from calving to branding to overseeing the kind of long-distance cattle drives that later became a staple of the western.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

“Thieves are normally going to go back to what they know, and cowboys know livestock,” says Brittain.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

He loves the American Wild West, its cowboys, the gunfights, the fistfights.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti