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		<title>The West&#8217;s Westness, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/12/06/the-wests-westness-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Westness is in the eye of the beholder.
I was on the hunt for the most western of western images and I discovered westness in
cactus-shaped cookie jars, by God.

In vast space encircled by mountains. (People find this openness either really scary or really refreshing. I recommend bringing a gallon of water per day either way.)

Westness is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Deal; or, What Real Cowboys Do</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/12/03/the-real-deal-or-what-real-cowboys-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s see, where was I? Why yes, hip deep in Lorne Greene&#8217;s pillow lips circa Bonanza&#8230;

Sigh, no. I was in deeply in the wonder that is the Gene Autry Museum (aka the Cowboy Museum) and writing up another draft of the novel. Unlike movie cowboys, who seem to either
a.) multitask&#8211;fix barbed wire fences, herd cattle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing the West; or, the West&#8217;s Westness, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/09/17/writing-the-west-or-the-wests-westness-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/09/17/writing-the-west-or-the-wests-westness-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cowboy Mythos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent trip to the LA&#8217;s Autry National Center of the American West, aka the Cowboy Museum, yielded huge Westness moments. I don&#8217;t remember much of it&#8211;being so transported in ecstasy I wasn&#8217;t on the earthly plane&#8211;but I know I took a lot of pictures.
What is Westness? It&#8217;s the romantic thing that anything West of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elmer Kelton 1926-2009; or, Happy Trails</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/09/03/elmer-kelton-1926-2009-or-happy-trails/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/09/03/elmer-kelton-1926-2009-or-happy-trails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
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“I have often been asked how my characters differ from the traditional, larger-than-life heroes of the mythical West,” Mr. Kelton said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News in 2007. “ ‘Those,’ I reply, ‘are seven feet tall and invincible. My characters are 5-8 and nervous.’ ”

Elmer Kelton died August 22 in Texas, after a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buckaroo&#8217;s Back; or, Cowboy Facts 16 and 15</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/08/29/buckaroos-back-or-cowboy-facts-16-and-15/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/08/29/buckaroos-back-or-cowboy-facts-16-and-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You ever go through life thinking you should&#8217;ve written that novel/filmed that movie/accepted that job/kissed that girl or guy/said yes when someone asked you to strip in front of a camera/handed that demo CD to that music exec/said hello to Paul Newman/told your best friend you love him or her/changed careers/hugged your kid/WRITTEN THAT NOVEL?
Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boone&#8217;s Day; or, Not the Boone of Boone&#8217;s Farm</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/06/07/boones-day-or-not-the-boone-of-boones-farm/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/06/07/boones-day-or-not-the-boone-of-boones-farm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have Daniel Boone&#8217;s ADHD to thank for the western two-thirds of the United States. June 7 is a day that lives in glorious Disney colors or one that lives in infamy, depending on whether you were not or were a Native American. 
On June 7, 1769, Daniel Boone crested a summit in the Appalachians and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dude!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/06/03/dude/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/06/03/dude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Western definition:
Dude (dood) n.
Usually an Easterner, but it can be used to call anyone obviously unready for the West&#8211;such as if a person is wearing street shoes, too-fancy clothes, or unable to ride a horse or track game or make coffee in a tin can. A dude is usually mocked mercilessly (see The Virginian, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denis Johnson&#8217;s Land; or, The West of &#8220;Nobody Move&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/05/28/denis-johnsons-land-or-the-west-of-nobody-move/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/05/28/denis-johnsons-land-or-the-west-of-nobody-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cover of Denis Johnson&#8217;s new novel Nobody Move screams KITSCHPULPNOIR with red and yellow letters and bullet holes spangling the jacket.
Famously serialized in Playboy, the story has plenty to like, or plenty to dislike, depending on how cooked you like your femme fatales, gun-toting heavies, and convoluted plots. I take mine hard as nails, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mojave Desert Dream</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/05/16/mojave-desert-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/05/16/mojave-desert-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 21:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wash of wind. The flat land stretching to the mountains. Sunset. 
Heavy work week. Nephew in trouble and I can&#8217;t do anything about it. No time to write. Barely keeping relationships intact. And then I dream. I dream of: 

 
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		<title>I Told You So; or, Republicans Aren&#8217;t Cowboys</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/05/07/i-told-you-so-or-why-republicans-arent-cowboys/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2009/05/07/i-told-you-so-or-why-republicans-arent-cowboys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 12:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rugged individualism takes you far, especially if you&#8217;re a misanthrope. For the rest of us, it&#8217;s helpful to be nice to the neighbors, to let in the ConEd man to check the meter, and to obey street signs.

What has gotten my goat since Day One of Politics with the Sore-Loser Republican Party is how unobservant [...]]]></description>
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