Sentence examples for cowpuncher from inspiring English sources
For his whole career he's been a fibber, a master dissembler, and a raffish raconteur: "I was more a cowpuncher than a Pied Piper," he writes, and here at least, we might take him at his word.
He attended Yale and published in Harper's Monthly, illustrating the cowpuncher tales written by his friend Owen Wister, a Harvard graduate and another dude.
Mr. Kendrick remembers a conversation with a Texas cowpuncher whose brim edges threatened to meet somewhere over the crown of his hat.
Moving further south on the cowboy map the term cowpuncher takes over, mostly in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, where the work clothes are much more utilitarian and the brims of the hats arch skyward on the sides, a style that flat-hatted buckaroos call "taco hats".
In a hostile review of "The Sociological Imagination," the sociologist Edward Shils described Mills as a "burly cowpuncher on the long, slow ride from the Panhandle of Texas to Columbia University".
He performed opposite the ventriloquist's dummy on the BBC radio show "Educating Archie," and in 1952 he made his first album, "The Cowpuncher's Cantata," the title track of which made the charts.
A serious blizzard and fatal cold began to slide down from the Canadian plains that night, and when it broke twelve days later the herds were decimated, cows packed ten deep against barbwire fences, pronghorn congealed into statues, trains stalled for three weeks by forty-foot drifts, and two cowpunchers in a line shack frozen together in a buffalo robe.
They're a gallery of old west archetypes: bounty hunters, civil war veterans, lawmen, "cowpunchers" and, almost stealing the show, Leigh's demented murderer.
They're a gallery of old west archetypes: bounty hunters, civil war veterans, lawmen, "cowpunchers" and, almost stealing the show, Jennifer Jason Leigh's demented murderer.
Over time, many ranches opened up just to cater to the growing number of tourists and, more recently, started offering high-end touches -- from children's clubs to spas -- that might take cowpunchers by surprise.
