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David Mann (() September 10, 1940 — () September 11, 2004) [2] was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated biker culture, and choppers.Called "the biker world's artist-in-residence," [5] his images are ubiquitous in biker clubhouses and garages, on motorcycle gas tanks, tattoos, and on T-shirts and other memorabilia associated with biker culture.
He is known as "the cowboy artist" [3] and was also a storyteller and author. He became an advocate for Native Americans in the west, supporting the bid by landless Chippewa to have a reservation established for them in Montana. In 1916, Congress passed legislation to create the Rocky Boy Reservation.
Charles Marion Russell, also known as "Kid Russell", was an American artist of the American Old West, who used to be a cowboy in ranch. His cowboy background gave him advantages in his art career that he was familiar with the cowboy life and qualified to record the western history in which he played a part. [23]
Artists of the American West.; Visual artists depicting the 18th−19th century western American Frontier and American Old West, and the 20th−21st century Western United States, in various artistic media.
The English word cowboy has an origin from several earlier terms that referred to both age and to cattle or cattle-tending work. The English word cowboy was derived from vaquero, a Spanish word for an individual who managed cattle while mounted on horseback. Vaquero was derived from vaca, meaning "cow", [3] which came from the Latin word vacca.
Beyoncé’s country crossover wasn’t embraced by everyone at first, but during the NFL Christmas Gameday halftime show, it united audiences across the country and drew in more than 27 million ...
Several film adaptations were made of the book, with James narrating the 1933 film. His fictionalized autobiography, Lone Cowboy, was written in 1930 and was a bestselling Book-of-the-Month Club selection. He wrote his last book, The American Cowboy, in 1942, shortly before his death and the last line he wrote was "The cowboy will never die ...
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