Word: cowboying
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...appears as Ernest Hemingbone, a grey-templed writer who fights a contrary pipe and indulges in literary guttersnipery. Soupy also fits cozily into the part of such irregular guests as a hooch-soaked Private Eye who couldn't find a clue in a roomful of corpses, an effete cowboy named The Lone Stranger, or a goateed bop musician who faints at the mention of Lawrence Welk...
...Colt .44 beside the typewriter that inspires me," or that Miss Johnson won a spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from the gun-smoked hams of cowboy fiction-Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, or Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford...
...authentic; she grew up in Whitefish, Mont. with wide ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising quality of humor. One of her best stories, I Woke Up Wicked, is the tale of an unheroic cowboy who inadvertently becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String. Up to the last line, "I went home to Pennsylvania and took up plowing," she sustains perfectly the self-derisory note of the campfire raconteur. Her shorter stories are her best, and in tales of Indian, settler...
There is a day in most men's lives when they give up reading cowboy stories because they cannot believe them any more. Dorothy Johnson's tales offer a chance to turn back the calendar with a good conscience...
...Charlie's old friends could not help pointing out that the whole long struggle would have struck the cowboy artist as a lot of tomfoolery. As to how Charlie would have felt if he had known he was going to make his last stand cooped up in the company of 42 heroes of other states, e.g., Massachusetts' Sam Adams, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, Texas' Sam Houston and Pennsylvania's Robert Fulton.* not even the cussingest barkeep west of Helena could...