Cowboy Heros

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One of my cowboy heroes. I think this is from the XIT Ranch in Texas.

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Caption: The youngest (cow) puncher, Lionel Wood, 2 years old, with Guy Weadick, Calgary Stampede.

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Guy Weadick (1885–1953) was best known as the founder of the Calgary Stampede, in Alberta, Canada.
 
I dunno..."cowboys" kill Native American's and torture animals? Then again there was a George Strait video back in the day...and you can see how it was romanticized.
 
In the early 50's there was a TV show on in the afternoons. Each day they featured a different cowboy. One was Red Rider with Robert Blake as Little Beaver. Another was Sunset Carson. There was a third who I didn't care for as much. Later on in the late 50's early 60's I just loved Dale Robertson who stared in Tales of Wells Fargo. His birthday was four days before mine and I remember sending him a birthday card. lol
 
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Oh, Man, Roy Rogers, everyone's "All American Cowboy." I remember his TV show on Saturday morning's with Pat Brady and his jeep, "Nellie Belle", Trigger, Bullet and of course, Dale Evans and her horse, Buttercup or something like that. Yeah, I'd watch every Saturday morning to see who he was rescuing on that day. How many Triggers were there? Probably about as many Lassies. Now, if I had to name my favorite TV cowboy show, well, that may be difficult. Just too many really good guys. No bad guys ever got their own show, did they? We did have some bad guys that were actually good guys with their own show, like Paladin. Maybe Rawhide, Wagon Train, Laramie, Bat Masterson, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, Palladin, Death Valley Days and Wanted: Dead or Alive. Also enjoyed; The Lone Ranger, The Rifleman, Bonanza and to some extent The Big Valley, which was my Mom's favorite because she liked Barbara 'what's her name.' Oh, yeah, can't forget Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy and Wild Bill Hickok with Andy Divine. Zorro & Poncho, not so much.

My dad watched any western cowboy movie or TV show, but I think Gunsmoke was his favorite. Nothing like the old west to stir up good imaginations within us kids. I mean, who didn't get a set of six-shooters for Christmas? We used to sit around and talk about what life would have been like for us if we had lived back then. For me, it would have been, how did they ever get along without electricity and a refrigerator? Today, it would be like, "How did they ever get along without a microwave and a cell phone?" My dad was a man's man. He never showed me that he had any fears. All macho, being career Army. I did see him cry one time and that was when his Dad (our Pappy) died. He died on my Dad's birthday. My dad was pissed and sad all at the same time. Pissed because he died on his birthday and sad because his dad died.

I can remember when my dad, his brother (my uncle) and I would play old country songs. One day, I was maybe 14 or 15, my dad said he wanted to play "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". My uncle said that he remembered it, but I needed the music to follow after. After we had finished, my uncle said that Roy and his group, The Sons of the Pioneers sounded better. He said Roy had the Sons of the Pioneers and we were the SOB's. Funny, how stuff like comes to mind. My fav cowboy song, "Back In the Saddle Again." Gene Autry. Very easy to play, just 4 chords playing rhythm.
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Gosh, Oldman -- I hadn't thought of all those folks in years! I remember all of them. WOW!

What was the name of Palladin's show -- was it Have Gun Will Travel, or something else?

Remember Lash Larue from the Saturday serials?
 
When I was a little girl, my maternal grandma(she was very old) lived back east, and the first time she came to visit us here in New Mexico (early 50s) she was scared to death we'd be attacked by Indians at any moment. I think she was shocked that we actually had indoor plumbing and electricity and a lawn and cars and everything!
 
Ever wonder if cowboys took baths out on the trail? Why, yes they did! Here's proof.

Cowboys bathing in a pond, Seward County, Kansas, taken sometime between 1891 and 1912 (photo by F. M. Steele)

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Cowboy Bath n. def. The process of washing one's body to later put on the same clothes again. The washing is usually done quickly and the clothes are usually dirty. Done mostly during traveling because of the lack of one's own commodities.

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I was feeling a bit down these last few days for one reason or another. I clicked on this thread just to read any new posts. I ended up starting at the beginning. I put my head phones on for a better sound I get when listening to anything on the computer and made a tall glass of iced coffee,sat back and played every single song posted and read everything. I will never,ever get tired of true western music,western culture, poems and stories. Thanks to all who posted here and loved the photo of Dale Robertson who I adored as a teenager. Feeling better now after my caffeine fix and relaxing with the cowboys. They still have a way of making everything right.
 
Heroes to the cowboys: The Chuck Wagon Cooks ?

By the 1870's, dozens of cattle drives were moving millions of cattle from Texas to markets in the midwest. A typical drive of 3,500 head of cattle might require eighteen cowboys.
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The chuck wagon cook was sometimes an aging cowboy hired for his ability to drive a wagon more than his cooking skills. He was in charge of the wagon and everything related to it. The cook was paid more than the other hands because the success of the camp and the drive depended greatly on him and the cook's job was arguably the hardest.

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Another name for the Camp Cook was "Gut Robber" or "Biscuit shooter"! He would always empty the dirty dishwater under the Chuck Wagon, to flush out the "goldbrickers" who tried stealing a nap!:)
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