Sounds like something maybe an old cowboy might say if he had some tobacco in his mouth.

He'd not heard the old cowboy come in this evening.

In the next story, he's arrested again after stealing some beer from an old white cowboy.

An old cowboy went to a bar and ordered a drink.

And the only thing to find in bars are the old cowboys.

He tried to think of what one of the old cowboys would do in his place.

But the old cowboy had mentioned a large number of trees and much shade.

With gold such as the old cowboy in Flagstaff had found?

He was thinking of the gold the old cowboy found, and particularly the map.

After all, that old cowboy could not have carried his gold very far.