Archive for February, 2010
Many folks today still remember the western lifestyle of the cowboy and early pioneers.
This is one of the reasons why Mr. Ed’s Western Images has a website that provides cowboy wall art to online shoppers. Just the mention of names like John Wayne, Randolph Scott, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Glenn Ford, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Eddy Arnold, and a host of others . . . remind us of great movies and cowboy songs we enjoy today.
The Swenson Ranch in Texas is also returning to the roots of the traditional Cowboy. An article of reference is the “Swenson Ranch Revival,” by Walter Workman, published in the Western Horseman magazine, April 2009, pages 24-29. “Why drive a pickup truck,” some say, “when you can do the job better with a horse? . . . as The Traditional Cowboy!”