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A cowboy wears a big hat and rides a strong horse under the wide,open skies of the American West.He can rope a cow and jump from the top of a building onto a waiting horse.He is a man of few words,a man of great independence(独立).That is the film image(形象)of an American cowboy,but not all the images are true.
A real cowboy of the old west was simply a farm worker who rode a horse.He worked twelve or fourteen hours a day.The work was dirty,tiring and not wellpaid.He usually worked with eight or ten other men.He seldom carried a gun.Cowboys played a huge part in the folk culture of the United States.Yet the golden time for the cowboys lasted only thirty years from 1865 to 1895.That was when cattle farming grew to be a big business.New ways to keep meat fresh had created a great demand for beef cattle.At the same time,railroads had been built across much of the country.Cattle farming could raise cattle at low cost in the west and sent them east by rail.The main job of the cowboys was to move the cattle to the nearest railroad.This was done in the hot months of summer.The cowboys rode along the road behind a huge group of cattle.Some newspaper reporters went west.They discovered the cowboys and began to write about them.Artists drew pictures of cowboys for magazines.Authors wrote stories and books about brave,lonely cowboys.Cowboys quickly became a sensation(轰动).
You can still find cowboys in the United States.Today there are about one million of them.But the life of the cowboys has changed greatly since the late 1800s.Modern cowboys still ride horses,but they also use trucks and helicopters(直升机).Most modern cowboys are young men,but today you can find cowgirls too.
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