Cowboy Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

“What the fuck is wrong with Westerns? Westerns are the shit.” “Oh yeah, tell me, why are westerns THE SHIT?” Ti said, air quoting…

— T.M. Frazier

While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become,…

— Viggo Mortensen

People came to America and they did not abandon their own cultures, but they assumed new ones, a new one, an American culture rooted…

— Rush Limbaugh

“What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a…

— Joan Didion

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very…

— Theo Rossi

“As Americans embraced Wild West mythology by ignoring inconvenient facts and exaggerating or inventing more palatable ones, they also altered the meaning of a…

— Jeff Guinn

“people who wanted to change America back to how it used to be. Not an America with the segregation that was part of the…

— Mike Foster

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had…

— John Gould

“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They didn’t want…

— Jane Mayer

So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was like the…

— Christine Jennings

Stop and think of what happened in America. The melting pot, yeah, it happened. Stop and think of what happened, from the first days…

— Rush Limbaugh