What I Learned from Binge-Watching Cowboy Movies

What I Learned from Binge-Watching Cowboy Movies I hated cowboys when I was a youngster. Not real cowboys—I never met a single gunslinger, cowpoke, or desperado in in my urban neighborhood. My loathing was reserved for cowboys on TV.And they were everywhere. Please support my work—by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month).Subscribe nowAt one point, eight of the top ten shows on the flickering tube were westerns. And it got worse from there—Hollywood kept churning out more and more cowboy movies and TV series. I tried to avoid them, as did many of my buddies, but it was like dodging bullets in Dodge. There was nowhere to hide.That’s because our parents loved these simple stories of frontier justice. They couldn’t get enough of them. And when they weren’t watching them on TV, they dragged us off to movie theaters to see The Magnificent Seven (128 minutes) The Alamo (138 minutes) or How the West Was Won (an excruciating 164 minutes). My f

Added 24 Mar 2026