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

With six saddle-wary Secret Service agents in tow, the President's son had gone to the athletic community of San Diego Country Estates for some lessons in bareback riding, bulldogging and other cowpuncher skills.

From Time Magazine Archive

Best-remembered achievement: a pistol-packing cowpuncher from Texas, Bart McMenomey, was one of several U.S. experts who helped raise cattle production from 4,500 head in 1954 to 70,000 today.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a rare thing to meet a cowpuncher who could not turn out biscuits of some degree of edibility, but we had a master hand.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis