Word: cowboyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-suffering Singing Cowboy--whose team has never yet played in a World Series--spring in the desert behind Mt. San Jacinto was a tonic which he used to soothe the pain of the previous October's perpetual disappointment...
...much. Quinn, the hero, is supposed to be a stressed-out investigative reporter; and since this is Los Angeles, he's got a bigfoot Jeep with a camo paint job (there's a plot, but first things first) and a drop-dead Japanese-American photog girlfriend who wears cowboy boots with little chains on them. The bad guys include an old- time movie cowboy with a political itch and an aging football hero who < likes to hurt people. Their meanness is actorish...
...Baxter Black, cowboy poet...
...Ryan, photographer and producer of the book Ranching Traditions, a spectacular look at the haunting beauty and challenges of range life. "They are an endangered species," she says. These ranchers, she insists, not only supply a vital link of the food chain but also carry with them the cowboy heritage that is so much a part of American history. They are the fragile fabric of Western society that occupies the vast spaces and holds them together. "Reluctant heroes," Ryan calls them, a breed that stayed and endured rather than running off to the promises of suburbia...
...Cowboy Blues...