[lit-ideas] Re: JOE THE PLUMBER

  • From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:31:55 -0700 (PDT)

Actually, if you're a real cowboy you're probably a freed slave or out of work 
soldier from the Civil War looking for work.  Or a Russian Cossack immigrant 
doing horsemanship in NYC or Philadelphia in a Cossack style embroidered 
shirt.  So if you like cowboys you'll have to thank the people at Liberty 
Island who changed Yevgenie Autryinski into Gene Autry.  Okay, never mind, I 
made him up but it captures the reality of the origin of the cowboy.  The real 
cowboys are long forgotten.  There's actually a book I came across once on 
the myth of the cowboy but it too is long forgotten.  If I think of it I'll 
post it.  


--- On Sat, 10/18/08, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



  But if you're a real cowboy, you suck it up and get back on your horse.
 
Mike Geary
Memphis
 

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