Please - History People... I have 3 questions that need answers!!!?

Question

1) Can you please describe real cowboys - like what work did they do?

2) How would you compare and contrast real cowboys w/ myth of a cowboy?

3) And, I want to know why is the cowboy myth popular among Americans?

Answer 1

Work
Cowboys primarily worked cattle ranches. This meant watching heards, preventing cattle rustling, driving heards to market, killing predators (mountain lions, pumas, etc.), branding, and preventing the spread of cattle diseases. The life was very hard due to poor living conditions and low pay.

There is a vast difference between the mythological cowboy and the real cowboy. The myth cowboy had a fun, easy life in the great open outdoors, playing guitar, singing, and watching beautiful sunsets eating good fresh cooked food outdoors.

Real cowboys rarely bathed, drank as much as they could, killed each other regularly, and rarely had a decent meal.

The cowboy myth is popular and important because the Cowboy represented the rugged individual who conquered and tamed the Wild West on his own terms. Cowboys know right from wrong, protect women and children, love the wide open spaces, and deal with life on their own terms beholden to no others. The classic cowboy is the strong silent type capable of dispensing justice with the wisdom of an apostle and lightning quick speed of a gun fighter.

Cowboys are far more than myth. If you ever meet one, as I have, it is truly an honor and privilege.

Answer 2

"Cowboys" was originally a DERAGATORY term to describe the more unsavory ppl in the western society. Cattle rustlers mainly. they would steal cattle from Mexico and other states and sell them at a lower price to stores and whatnot, who would sell them at normal price to their consumers and make a killing.

read what i said above. in modern mytholoy the image of the "cowboy" is one of a person "doing it on their own", living a life that one would want to live, strong, independant.

because it gives ppl a model to what they wish they could be.

Answer 3

Isn't it so obvious.
Cowboys worked on American Ranches taking care of cattle.

Mythical ones had like those western movies.
All those shootouts, eyc. (Like the movies which made them popular.)

I reckon because of the large amounts of Ranches and Ranch - towns in the past.

PS- Down Under we have Jackeroos not Cowboys

Answer 4

America had more cowboys than Canada and Australia, and America made movies about them, making them popular.

Answer 5

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