What defines the real american cowboy? Is it the horse, the guns, or the cow herding. If I had to choose the most important thing to me is the day to day work ethic of the cowboy. A cowboy's day usually consists of getting up early in the morning and working the ranch until the late hours of the night. From keeping their horses in peak condition, to wrangling up the cows after grazing.Being a cowboy was hard work. It isn't just the riding around and shooting criminals. That is just hollywood fiction. Cowboys usually just hungout on the ranch and did chores like any ranch would need. They would wrangle the herd up and lock them up after grazing. They would also move bundles of hay and protect the land. After a hard days work they were finally free to go inside for dinner and get a good nights sleep only towake up early again the next morning and do it all over again.
Hollywood portrays the cowboy as the roung riding group that goes around shooting bad guys. The only thing hollywood is really honest about is the clothing. Cowboys would wear the boots and wranglers because it helped them do their job. The boots would have spurs to make the horses go faster and the wranglers were comfortable and durable for their hands on job.
