Beginning with re-broadcasts of existing films soon a number of movie cowboys had their own TV shows.
For the second try the wranglers, joined by the movie cowboys, urge the cattle into a lope.
Beginning in the 1940s, pastel colors were introduced, seen often on hats worn by movie cowboys and rodeo riders.
"By jingo, I could pass for a movie cowboy in this getup, if I do say so myself!"
He was still the movie cowboy in boots, stagged pants and a big light hat.
If any of them shot like movie cowboys, their mission could come to a premature end, and that wouldn't do.
Alistair pays tribute to the man who made the movie cowboys look good.
But by late 1937, it was not enough for a movie cowboy merely to talk, rope and ride.
Unlike most movie cowboys, Baker really worked as a cowboy in his youth, and was a rodeo champion when he was sixteen.
DeSpain had picked up the handgun and was now twirling it by the trigger guard around his forefinger, like a movie cowboy.