Other ideas that i have for essays are the evolution of the cowboy. We started off reading dime novels that didn't really have a method on what a cowboy hero should look like or act. The perfect example is cali Joe he was dressed in all black but road a white horse. The lone ranger on the other hand dressed in all white and rode a white horse. The acts of the cowboy seemed to go in an ark through out the years. The cowboy starts out as an outlaw (cali Joe) and then moved onto the noble actions of the lone ranger and the singing cowboys then the cowboy devolves back into an outlaw with some of John Wayne's characters and with Clint Eastwood with his role in the dollars trilogy.
The second idea is a look at the cowboy code and the movie cowboys Vs. the reality of what history says happened.
California Joe
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"Ho, stranger!" called out one of the number.
But no reply came, and neither horse or rider moved.
"Stranger, who are you?"
Again was the call unansw...
15 years ago
Was CA Joe an outlaw? I read him only as a loner...though not particularly good at it. (His character totally fascinates me.)
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