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

Jim Williams had tried just about everything � cowpuncher, railroad fireman, mule skinner, tattooer, prize fighter, machinist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Against him appeared SEC's Associated Gas specialist, a young Texas cowpuncher named Lewis Dabney.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had stumped the cowpuncher, who now entered the fight with wonderfully good-natured zest.

From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Cullum, Ridgwell