cowpoke

Wyatt Earp: A Life on the Frontier seems right at home at Anchorage, Alaska's Eccentric Theatre Company, and the same might be said for the cowpoke musical Chaps!

The purchaser of the SUV might get to feel like a suburban cowpoke, but everyone else gets less space on the road, more brutal crashes, and tighter gas supplies as well.

Last month, I listed the wrong telephone number for American Western Arms ("Profiting From The Cowpoke Factor").

"Casey Bathelmess, 80 years old, once a bronco buster and a cowpoke, shifted on his crutches outside the depot.

When it was found the west had to be won, some buck skinned cowpoke cut off that flap and the first of the, dare we say, "modern" generation of holsters was born--the Slim Jim.

At age 11, Michael isn't yet allowed to toss the calf down like a professional wrangler, but as he walks away there's a cowpoke swagger to his walk that doesn't go unnoticed by some nearby girls.

When Jack refuses to fight, responding to the cowpoke's taunts with "I'm married," Scratchy leaves without fighting, bewildered that the old rules have changed.

As many a starry-eyed young cowpoke soon discovered, there was little romance to the real thing - although perhaps more than in today's rumbling ride of a few hours up interstate highways in a tractor-trailer rig.

This is the third book for author Joseph Louis Garces III, who also wrote "Garrett the Firefighter" and "Tyler the Cowpoke." Garces, a firefighter and arson investigator for the Oxnard Fire Department, previously served as an elementary school teacher.

Lori Mortensen's COWPOKE CLYDE AND DIRTY DAWG (9780547239934, $16.99) tells of Cowpoke Clyde, whose house is clean and chores are done.

To the north on the Treasure Coast, the team on Cowpoke, owned by Cruiser Crews from Avon Park and captained by Mike Brady, had a hot start in The Treasure Coast Sailfish Championship in December.

He admits to being intimidated by Chris Cooper, the son of a cattle rancher who has described himself as a 'bluecollar cowpoke' who psyched him out before their fight by doing press-ups against a wall.

Epic Western directed by the legendary Howard Hawks, with veteran cowpoke John Wayne playing a pioneer cattleman obsessed with reaching Missouri where he plans to sell his herd.

Unfortunately, it also smacks of excess, lumbering through three lengthy acts that at times beg for a no-nonsense cowpoke to cull the herd.