I still had never ridden or cowboyed, and I wanted to learn something about it. I'd been making the damn saddles for years but didn't know how to use them.
Generally a ranch hand that was skilled in various ranch duties such as bronc busting, roundup, roping, and riding and possessed a great knowledge of horses Many Canadian cowboys came to the prairies from the United States while others were from the British upper-middle classes Most were employed on the southern ranches and took part in the annual round-up The image of the cowboy has been wildly romanticized by Hollywood in the twentieth century as an independent, rough and tough figure bedecked in chaps, with a six-shooter at his side, cowboy boots and, of course, his cowboy hat Their myth, as much as their reality, has come to symbolize the western life and spirit
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles) a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging
A cowboy is a man employed to look after cattle in North America, especially in former times
One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans