Word: cowboying
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...mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could not stop him. Five thousand U. S. Marines chased him for five years, killed nearly 1,000 of his followers, reported him dead a score of times but never laid hands on him. U. S. newspapers uniformly called him "bandit." But what Sandino wanted...
...individual in chaps whom you see from your Union Pacific Observation car, sitting his horse beside a wire fence near a grazing heard, is not a cowboy. He is a more hired man. The cowboy of the glorious days rode from Texas to Alberia, from outfit to outfit, in the days when men, not fences guarded the herds of the Western ranges...
...book was the fruit of a life-long friendship between the author and Charles M. Russell, the cowboy artist who died a few years ago. Russell encouraged Tucker to write his memoris and had planned to illustrate them, but his death prevented it. Tucker's manuscript was edited by Grace Stone Coates, who has done an excellent job of preserving the authentic tone of the old cowboy's own expression...
...flavor of the old West, but are fed up with fake thrillers. It is a document in the history of that genuine Western culture, primitive as it was, which the expansion of the nation swept away. The only account comparable to it in conveying the real note of the cowboy era is that brief description written by Samuel Eliot Morison (of all people!) in the "Oxford History of the United States...
...Cecil Smith, Texas cowboy, and Elmer J. Boeseke Jr. of California, who were mainly responsible for the West's polo victory over the East last summer: ten-goal handicap rating by the U. S. Polo Association. Only other ten-goaler this year is famed Tommy Hitchcock, for the 13th successive season...