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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

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when…

— Michael Keaton

The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away from Western…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Westerns are American history brought to life. Those fuckers were badasses, Callie,” he told me with a smirk. “Plus, John Wayne’s the fuckin' shit.”

— Nicole Jacquelyn

“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

I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys…

— Harry Dean Stanton

Westerns aren't about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It's not what they're about, at least the good…

— Kevin Costner

“Behind the semi-elliptical bar four cowboys who had never been near a cow sang western songs which sounded as if they had originated in…

— Ross Macdonald

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

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

“Some of us are not meant to cowboy-up”

— Craig Johnson

“You have the best wild west rancher cowboy name in history”

— Kristen Ashley