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Pecos Bill (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs) [1] is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. These narratives were invented as short stories in a book by Tex O'Reilly in the early 20th century and are an example of American "fakelore".
John Horton Slaughter with his shotgun Incorrectly identified as "Terry's Texas Rangers" in fact these were cowboys of John H. Slaughter; see [1]. John Horton Slaughter (October 2, 1841 – February 16, 1922), also known as Texas John Slaughter, was an American lawman, cowboy, poker player and rancher in the Southwestern United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Cowboy (1928) Dog Days (1955) Hardrock and Silver Sage (1951) Lost Pony Tracks (1956) Men and Horses (1926) Rummy Kid Goes Home: and Other Stories of the Southwest (1965 anthology) Sleepy Black (1933) The Bar X Golf Course (1933) The Bubbling Spring (1949) The Pooch (1931) Wranglers and Rounders: The Cowboy Lore of Ross Santee (1981 anthology)
The vaquero became the foundation for the North American cowboy, in Northern Mexico, Southwestern United States, and Western Canada. The cowboys of the Great Basin still use the term " buckaroo ", which may be a corruption of vaquero , to describe themselves and their tradition. [ 1 ]
Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier (usually anywhere west of the Mississippi River) and typically set during the late nineteenth century.
The origins of cowboy culture go back to the Spanish vaqueros who settled in New Mexico and later Texas bringing cattle. [2] By the late 1800s, one in three cowboys were Mexican and brought to the lifestyle its iconic symbols of hats, bandanas, spurs, stirrups, lariat, and lasso. [3]
Western music is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada.Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains, and among the prairies of Western North America.