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Article: There never was an icon of American manhood to compare with the cowboy.(The Week)(Brief article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 13, 2006
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There never was an icon of American manhood to compare with the cowboy. For decades, from Tex Ritter and Hopalong Cassidy, through Gary Cooper and John Wayne, down to the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s, these rugged, self-reliant heroes rode and swaggered across our movie and TV screens, teaching us the elements of justice, honor, chivalry, and manliness. Alas, when we lost our national innocence, around 1968, we lost the cowboy too. Nowadays these slow-talkin', fast-drawin' legends of the old West are remembered, if at all, as pathetic symbols ...
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