Cowpokes

Another New York weed that sprouted at SUNY-Purchase, O 'Death is a gaggle of urban cowpokes who sound like they' d be more comfortable banging washboards in a junkyard than finding artisan cornbread in Brooklyn. ❋ Greater New York Staff (2010)

As a guitar laid the rhythm down, a weary voice sang of cowpokes doomed the moment they strapped on the big iron of a pistol. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now he was talking about Argentina, of the great estancias on the Pampas and the gauchos, the Argentine cowpokes. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)

If the cowpokes kept the black busy long enough, maybe they could cut a few mares out of his herd. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)

But his perpetually grizzled appearance fits in just fine for a frontiersy kind of tale about cowpokes and rectal probes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The cowpokes collected a rattler who was frozen near-stiff from the cold, sewed its mouth shut, and put it down inside the New Hand's boot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The riders came in hard the last half mile, thundered past the house like cowpokes letting loose in Dodge City back in the days of the big trail drives from Texas. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)

Such things had been known to happen, but they required the combustible combination of liquor and young cowpokes. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)

Men—none of them Graywolf commandos, but all of them tough-looking townie cowpokes—hung about, all armed not with the ubiquitous M4s but with Ruger Mini-14s, which looked a little more ranchlike in the hands of boys in jeans and boots and hats. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)

If the U.S. Army or the pioneers or cowpokes always had a weather-beaten, battle-hardened sergeant or trail boss who pumped up his men before the climactic battle, the Indians must have had the same NCO type who did the same for them. ❋ George Carlin (2009)