Word: cowboying
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...transition from stagecoach to TV screen emended or emasculated the frontier in countless ways. It shaved whiskers, canonized cutthroats, multiplied mortality rates, and taught the classics to hired killers. Most starting of all, it exterminated the Negro Cowboy. In the years-after the Civil War, more than 5000 Negroes rode with the great cattle drives from Texas to points north. Negro troops fought Indians, Negro burghers owned hotels and stores, and Negro outlaws rustled, murdered, and died on gallows under sentence from Judge Parker. But in novels and scenarios written for dude consumption, only the plots are black and white...
...forgotten Appomattox, but most of them met with very little discrimination. The settlers of Wyoming voluntarily desegregated their first public school. Negroes won tall-tale reputations as cooks and bulldoggers, and as con-men and outlaws too. As Durham and Jones unfelicitously put it, "To be a good cowboy one needed first of all to be a good man, for a wild longhorn had no more respect for a white Texan than for a Negro...
...showered Moro with gifts-including a 19th century Sheraton gilt mirror, a pen stand with two gold pens, a matching Accutron desk clock, a photograph of Italy taken from U.S. satellite Tiros IX, a stained-glass cross, a blue nylon sleeping bag for a Moro daughter, and a Texas cowboy costume for Moro...
...rest and foam rubber seat), they munched hot dogs and lolled about in shirtsleeved comfort while a $4.5 million, computer-operated air-conditioning system kept the temperature at a steady 74° and filtered smoke out of the air. Luckier fans had "Spacettes" in gold lamé skirts and cowboy boots to guide them to their reserved seats ($2.50 to $3.50), their choice of three restaurants and a private club that offered everything from "king size roast prime eye of beef" ($5.50) to that old Texas standby, son-of-a-gun stew ($2.50). Almost all of them could go home...
There was "Arizona Jimmy" Moore, wearing cowboy boots with his tuxedo, and Onofrio Lauri, whose favorite trick is to polish his bald pate with a handkerchief so that it will reflect the table lights into the eyes of his opponents. There, too, was Irving Crane, who in one year at Hobart College learned mostly how to run a rack so fast that his friends call him "Machine Gun." Luther ("Wimpy") Lassiter was on hand, cheerfully admitting that he has not done an honest day's work since he earned "810 an hour" delivering groceries at 15. Once Lassiter spotted...