Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young one and tied a rope around his neck. He thought a wolf was on his back and bucked like a bronco, including falling on his back. I'd like to see a cowboy on a full grown musk...
...fire. Twirling this combination on a fairly familiar Western axis, they revealed an hour or so of highly satisfactory amusement. Miss Bennett plays the Broadway cabaret girl transplanted abruptly to the Western hills. Her lipstick and her silks are misunderstood by the conventional natives. But they go to her cowboy's head and he marries her by force. Their stormy honeymoon is completely surrounded by a forest fire through which they stumble to understanding and happiness...
...even a rumor of it. Immediately he set out on foot, walked two hundred miles to the nearest town, signed up and went overseas to Flanders, where he served with great distinction. As soon as peace was declared, he returned to his life of wandering. Successively he has been cowboy, prospector, guide, and big game hunter, occupations which have taken him over 25,000 miles of trail in the mountains...
...settlers, on its way to wider grazing lands in Mexico. In other words, the twilight of the old West. The idea and the purpose were commendable but the endless appearances of thousands of cows simply became monotonous. Woven roughly into the migration was the love story of the head cowboy and a girl whose cabin on the plains was wrecked in a stampede...
...producer; in Hollywood, following a sudden heart attack. An actor in his early years, he scorned the cinema, took his first motion picture job only because he was penniless. He established the first studio on the west coast at Santa Monica, Calif., christened it "Inceville," there made the first cowboy pictures...