Famous cowboys

It’s more than the hat, the horse, the boots, and the big screen. Our favorite movie heroes have that cowboy charisma. The movies have introduced thousands of cowboys: straight-shooting sheriffs and bloodthirsty bandits, humble family men and brave pioneers, genuine Old West legends and fictional characters that seem as real as the friends we had lunch with yesterday. So how could we possibly choose 15 of the greatest? Suffice it to say, with much difficulty and no definitive answers. This…

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John Wayne, major American motion-picture actor who embodied the image of the strong, taciturn cowboy or soldier and who in many ways personified the idealized American values of his era. He is best known for the films he made with directors John Ford and Howard Hawks.

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He plays a tough guy on the smash hit series Yellowstone which stars Kevin Costner. But without his cowboy hat and black sunglasses as well as his darker hair, he is pretty much unrecognizable.

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As WWII was ending, the studios were turning out war films and feel-good films to bolster our morale. The war had gone on a long time and, even though the war with Germany ended on VE Day, May 8, 1…