Category: cowboy

Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)

“Broadway to Cheyenne” starts off with a bunch of big city gangsters fighting and killing each other, with Detective Breezy Kildare (Rex Bell) caught in the middle. When Breezy goes out West to the ranch where he grew up, he runs into the same bunch of crooks. The gangsters are offering “protection” to the local…


VIDEO: 4-Year-Old Cowboy Learns Lessons of Life With His Beautiful Mare Named Willow

He may only be four, but little Hank Boyd can walk a horse like a true cowboy. Never away from his 18-year-old mare Willow, the two lead a ranch lifestyle out in Montana. It all started when the Boyd family—parents Amy and Ben, and their three children—moved from California to the Treasure State (a nickname for…


‘Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)

A cowboy escorts a little girl whose mother made her the heir of a cashable oil company, and must protect her from an outlaw as they search for the girl’s father. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the…


War of the Wildcats (1943)

In 1906, on Oklahoma’s Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men’s hearts. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films *…


Cowboy Realist Paints Western Ranch Life in Glorious Oil Color, Tells How He Learned Art, Lived Off Grid

Setting the mood for a cowboy painting, 65-year-old New Mexico artist Tim Cox begins mounting a smoothly primed board on easel, and, paintbrush in hand, applies ever-so-thinly diluted washes of lightly pigmented tones of oil and spirits. This is how a Western realist oil painting starts. He masses-in main shapes first, fuzzy blobs, no details…


The Earnest Cowboy Silversmith

Canadian silversmith and cowboy Scott Hardy wants the world to see the beauty and elegance of Western craftsmanship. He feels blessed to honor his culture in this way.  Hardy’s maternal grandparents raised him in Saskatchewan, after his parents divorced when he was 3 years old. He’s the fifth generation in his family of ranchers and homesteaders….


Will Rogers: Remembering the Charismatic ‘Cowboy Philosopher’ Comedian Who Won the Hearts of America

There isn’t just one word that can describe famed American folk hero Will Rogers. Born on a ranch in Indian Territory in 1879, he became a cowboy, a ranch hand, a rodeo rider, a vaudeville performer, a film star, a columnist, an author, a public speaker, a humorist, a radio personality, and a social commentator….


This Young Alabamian is Carrying on His Family Traditions to Become America’s Next Rodeo Star

Thirteen-year-old Rodney Howard looks like he galloped right out of a Western movie set. He’s sporting leather cowboy boots, wide-legged jeans, a belt with a huge silver buckle, a flannel corduroy long-sleeve shirt, and a worn-out cowboy hat. This is not your souvenir-shop cowboy hat. This hat has seen some action—rodeo circuit action. The outfit…


A Historian of the Wild West

Flying into Cody, Wyoming, a glance out the window of the airplane reveals nothing but mountains as far as the eye can see. It’s rough yet majestic, desolate yet delightful. This least populous state may look uncharted from above, but once on land, the history and heritage of the West stand proud. In this part…