Or at least the names of some good cowboy stories?
2006-10-13 15:49:18 · 11 answers · asked by rcy50000 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Texas Jack, Francisco Garcia...
2006-10-13 15:56:35 · answer #1 · answered by rollodecriente 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow! the answers you are getting are so typical of American mythology. all the people who are being named by other answerers to your question are either hollywood superstars who played cowboys on tv, or they were famous robbers, murderers, and gunfighters, or they were circus performers!
people buy the image but they don't realize that the act is not the same thing as reality. the truth is that cowboys were almost entirely mexicans or spanish americans. they mostly didn't get any more famous than any other farm or ranch worker ever would.
Gene Autry was really the beginning of the mythology that white americans were cowboys and he entertained a generation of kids in the 50's, giving a romance to that kind of work that really has very little to do with what life was actually like for cowboys.
there are still genuine cowboys in mexico and other parts of latin america. they spend weeks out on the land at a time, make very little money, and are just as unlikely to get famous for what they do as any cowboy who ever lived in the USA.
Louis Lamour is a famous writer of cowboy and old west stories. you may want to check out some of his books if you like those kind of tales.
2006-10-14 03:06:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pecos Bill
Wild Bill Hickok
Buffalo Bill Cody
Buffalo Bob
Wyatt Earp
Roy Rogers
The Lone Ranger
Marshall Dillon
Billy the Kid
Bat Masterson
Doc. Holiday
Gene Autry
Bret and Bart Maverick
The Ungers
Palladin
Yosemite Sam
Festus
2006-10-14 02:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by MUD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roy Rogers
Belle Starr
Cole Younger
Doc Holliday
Wyatt Earp
Bill Cody
Bill Hickcock
Jesse James
Frank James
Robert Ford-he shot Jesse James
William Bonny
"Big"George Brown
Pat Garrett
John Wesley Hardin-once shot a man for snoring too loud
Tex Ritter-wrote"Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer"
2006-10-15 01:15:00 · answer #4 · answered by Rich B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roy Rodgers, Tex Ritter, Gene Autrey, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Wild Bill Hickock, Gil Favor, Rowdy Yates, Jess Harper, Matt Dillon, Hannibal Heyes, Kid Curry, Jesse James
2006-10-14 05:22:43 · answer #5 · answered by sister_godzilla 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Famous cowboys : Wyatt Earp, Billy The Kid, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Nill Cody, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy & The sundance Kid.
2006-10-13 18:21:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
famous cowboys.. real or fabricated?
real:
Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Kid Curry, Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickock, Doc Holiday, Frank & Jesse James, Billy the kid, Judge Roy Bean, Wyatt Earp and his brothers, Ike and Billy Clanton, Black Bart, William Cody,John Wesley Harding, James Younger, Willie Kennard, Potato Creek Johnny,
fictonal: (sometimes based on real people)
Pecos Bill, the Cartwrights, Cisco Kid, Brett and Bart Maverick, Festus Hagen, The Lone Ranger, Matt Dillon, McLintock, Rooster Cogburn, McCloud, Yancy Derringer, The Barkleys, Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, Bat Masterson, Deadwood Dick, Jedediah Smith,
I am quite sure I have missed many in both catagories.. but this should be a start for you.
Of course there are also the women.. Calamity Jane, Belle Star.. etc etc .. but you did not ask for that list.
2006-10-13 16:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of the famous people named by earlier respondents were not technically cowboys. True they were figures from the old west who rode on horses and had six guns, but how many of them actually herded cattle any time in their careers?
2006-10-13 23:52:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some good western stories in the Wagons West series, written by Dana Fuller Ross. There were 25 of them. http://www.bentcover.com/danaross.htm
Zane Grey's stories of the old west were good.
2006-10-14 07:14:33 · answer #9 · answered by Eyes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-04 19:38:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋