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 cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens.
From Time Magazine Archive
A onetime Nebraska cowpuncher, he had gone to the University of Michigan to study law.
From Time Magazine Archive
She ain’t got that red hair for nawthin’,” concluded the woeful cowpuncher.
From Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson
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