The western cowboy hero would soon be replaced in popular culture by superheroes and masked crimefighters.

He'd seen his cowboy heroes do it in countless movies when he had been a boy.

The whistling of the main character Tetsu is reminiscent of cowboy heroes.

Fuzzy Knight, film and television actor, appeared in over 180 films between 1929 and 1967, usually as a cowboy hero's sidekick.

Rob Roy, too often lost amid this sprawling epic, makes most sense as a cowboy hero.

He appeared in more than 180 films between 1929 and 1967, usually as a cowboy hero's sidekick.

These are real live cowboy heroes that live it every day.

Before her stood the embodiment of every cowboy hero she'd ever dreamed about as a teenage girl.

At the moment, the country's brightest hope for a homegrown cowboy hero is probably Paulo Crimber.

She had watched cowboy heroes using them in every Western film she'd ever seen.