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It seems to be do or die for the Cowboys as they head into their much needed BYE week. The Cowboys have had quite the heart wrenching season so far, and that is putting it mildly. Week one the Cowboys suffered the loss of their star wideout in Dez Bryant. As if this wasn't devastating enough the very next week, their playmaker and heart of the offense Tony Romo went during the third quarter resulting in a broken clavicle. So there they were. Heading into week 3 with their two best offensive…

featured in an Animal Planet documentary series titled, "The Last American Cowboy". This three generation, 20,000 acre family ranch, maintains a traditional old fashioned working lifestyle by preferring to use horses over ATVs, baling hay with buck-rakes and stacking it with beaver slides. After having watched the series, we contacted them and landed ourselves summer jobs. This adventure was hard work and a no thrills cowboy lifestyle. We had long, demanding, workdays, but these were also…

The (2-3) Dallas Cowboys will play against the (3-3) New York Giants at the Met Life Stadium on Sunday 3:25 central time. Cowboys are coming off a bye week while the Giants are coming off a lost against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night. Everyone one on the Cowboys with the exception of Dez Bryant, and Tony Romo should be healthy ready to play which is good news for the Cowboys. The plan all along since Dez injured his foot Week 1 against the Giants was to have him back after the bye week…

perception of Cowboys and their masculinity. Ehrlich's purpose is to reveal that cowboys are not only masculine but compassionate too. Ehrlich uses personal experiences, her audiences sense of sympathy, and images of masculinity to claim that Cowboys are both masculine and compassionate. Ehrlich provides personal experiences that Cowboys are manly but caring as well. She uses personal experiences of her own staying in paragraph one, "... a reminder of the ranchers and cowboys I've ridden…

that, I want to be a bull rider.” I thought to myself, wow! Is my boy being serious? Watching the rest of the rodeo was such a joy seeing my son light up and talk about all the cowboys. Once we settled in at home that night, my wife and I were talking about the nights’ events, and how fascinated Dylan was with the cowboys. I told my wife, “we should get him into Mutton Busting,” and after showing her a few videos on the internet, she was…

emphasized in the article is that rodeos/contestants are cruel towards the animals. “A cowboy mounted his horse. Right next to him was a small caged enclosure. As soon as the gate to the cage was opened, a timid looking calf came sprinting out. The cowboy riding his horse followed the running calf and lassoed it. In a second, the calf came crashing down to the ground with the lasso pulling it by the neck. Swiftly, the cowboy dismounted the horse, ran to the struggling steer, and in one quick…

Team ropers-r-us The rider slowly backs his horse into the metal box. Nerves are pulsing through his body. He looks to the left and sees the steer is ready and looks even farther to the left and makes eye contact with his partner. He gives the look and nods his head. After that, it’s all so fast the steer launches forward and his partner swings the rope, and it is thrown, he prays for the best. Lucky for him the rope lands around the horns and his partner dallys up and turns left. Now it’s all…

Lane Frost Lane Frost was born on Oct. 12, 1963, in La Junta, and lived a life most cowboys know well. Clyde Frost, Lane’s father, rode saddle bronc and bareback on a rodeo circuit. His mother, Elsie, stayed with her parents while she was expecting Lane. It could be said that “cowboying”, as most Oklahoma cowboys call it, was in his blood. Frost started riding dairy calves on the family’s farm when he was five or six. He first rode a grown bull when he was nine. About this time, Frost met…

Wild Horses: A Dull Cowboy Soap Opera Robert Duvall wrote, directed, and starred in Wild Horses. Duvall indulges us with another gruff cowboy role as Scott Briggs, an old time rancher with a past full of mistakes. The film opens with Scott walking in on his son, Ben Briggs (James Franco) having an intimate conversation with another boy, Jimmy (Darien Willardson). Ashamed of his gay son he kicks both boys off the ranch at gunpoint. Fifteen years later Texas Ranger, Samantha (Luciana…

period 1866-1890. This was mainly because of the railroads that had reached towns suitable for gathering and shipping cattle. The first town to fully establish was Abilene in Kansas. Dodge City and Wichita soon followed. Dodge City was considered the “cowboy capital of the world.” (Ramos). In order for the cowmen to make sure they didn’t lose any of their cattle or to keep others from stealing, and to identify their own, they would brand or earmark the cattle. In order to brand the cattle, they…