cowboy story

‘See if you can’t bring me a story with something like a barbecue sandwich in it. But if you can’t find none of them I’d like a cowboy story.’

Archetypes of the cowboy story, tropes drawn from sci fi, love letters, diaries, confessions all abound in this relentlessly engaging tale.

In one letter, Mr. Rosenberg composes a brief Hopalong Cassidy cowboy story starring his two sons and reminds Michael: “You remember the Lone Ranger stories about how his little nephew, even though all alone, manages so well. He is able to do this because he cooperates with whoever is in charge of him and even as he learns new things and is in new places he is able to enjoy himself.”

And it's kind of a "Drugstore Cowboy" story, but set in the South.

The national media reveled in an honest-to-goodness cowboy story.