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	<description>From the Land of Cowboys to You; or, The Modern Buckaroo's Guide to the World</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Americans Can Now Tighten Their Belts; or, 51 Cowboy Facts Continued</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/11/08/americans-can-now-tighten-their-belts-or-51-cowboy-facts-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/11/08/americans-can-now-tighten-their-belts-or-51-cowboy-facts-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[belt buckles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Now that Americans have to tighten belts, a small but important accessory becomes ever more integral to the psyche of the modern-day cowboy. Whether you seek utility or bling, you still have to be able to be able to keep your damn britches on. Buckaroos and Buckarettes, may I re-introduce&#8230;the belt buckle. 

The Cowboy of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Heart the Obama Kid</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/11/05/i-heart-the-obama-kid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign '08]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Kid is in. The Great Decider is out&#8211;and so are slimy campaign innuendos. I&#8217;ll not be sorry to hear the last of the slander of the good Maverick family name. I&#8217;ll not be sorry to have less of cowboy-diplomacy-this* and cowboy-foreign-policy-that drop into my inbox with such alarming regularity. And I won&#8217;t be surprised if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have Gun Will Travel; or, The Way We Were Before Campaign &#8216;08</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/11/02/have-gun-will-travel-or-the-way-we-were/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/11/02/have-gun-will-travel-or-the-way-we-were/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Life must have been easier in the 1950s. Within half an hour, it was possible for a good guy to vanquish a bad guy, be a role model for youngsters, and look good in a holster. 


Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man. 
A knight without armor in a savage land. 
His fast gun for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Mother&#8217;s Relations; or, Tony Hillerman, Jim Chee, and Joe Leaphorn</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/30/our-mothers-relations-or-tony-hillerman-jim-chee-and-joe-leaphorn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/30/our-mothers-relations-or-tony-hillerman-jim-chee-and-joe-leaphorn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[On This Day in Western History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  Tony Hillerman, from laurieroberts.net 
My mother read Tony Hillerman&#8217;s books&#8211;one after the other, like eating potato chips.* One quiet day in her condo**  I stretched out my hand and picked up a creased paperback and immediately fell into Hillerman Country. 
Hillerman Country is red and ochre and brown and yellow. Dusty and windy. Populated by buttes and washouts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo Gal; or, Palin&#8217;s Civilizing Influence</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/26/buffalo-gal-or-palins-civilizing-influence/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/26/buffalo-gal-or-palins-civilizing-influence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign '08]]></category>

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Let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo is exterminated, as it is the only way to bring lasting peace and allow civilization to advance. &#8211;General Philip Sheridan

 Buffalo skulls, mid-1870s, waiting to be ground into fertilizer
Here&#8217;s a more recent quote:

“I am especially concerned,”  [Governor Palin] said in a written statement in August 2007, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOWLING WITH COYOTES; or, the Hero&#8217;s Quest Complete</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/22/bowling-with-coyotes-or-the-heros-quest-complete/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/22/bowling-with-coyotes-or-the-heros-quest-complete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cowboy Mythos]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[batboy]]></category>

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Reach for the sky!
 Cowboy Shoot &#8216;em Up with Stagecoach ©2008 es
Hey, that&#8217;s good advice. 
 
All movies and stories (all that are worth hearing) have the common theme of conflict that leads to resolution and the return. A theater play with no conflict at all resembles virtual reality. Where&#8217;s the fun in watching that? Might as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DRIFT RUN CEMETERY ICE CREAM SOCIAL; or, the Hero&#8217;s Quest</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/15/drift-run-cemetery-ice-cream-social-or-the-heros-quest/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/15/drift-run-cemetery-ice-cream-social-or-the-heros-quest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Mythology and ritual are the same thing. Take a look at Phantom Empire, 1935 Mascot serial. This twelve-episode serial is the worst Western of all time. But buried beneath its trick riding and kid-style secret club is a message as deep as the secret underground queendom of Murania. That&#8217;s about twenty-five thousand feet, way down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE JUNIOR THUNDER RIDER&#8217;S CLUB TO THE RESCUE!; or, the Hero&#8217;s Birth Announced</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/13/the-junior-thunder-riders-club-to-the-rescue-or-the-heros-birth-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/13/the-junior-thunder-riders-club-to-the-rescue-or-the-heros-birth-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8230;the strange Thunder Riders gallop across the desert. Their tracks lead back to the mysterious mountains&#8211;where no one has ever come out alive&#8230;

 Plastic Hero in Red ©2008 es
by guest blogger batboy42
The rules of life are different for a hero, no matter how hard he tries to remain with the old neighborhood. 
He&#8217;s walking like a hero [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All My Heroes Might Be Cowboys</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/11/all-my-heroes-might-be-cowboys/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/11/all-my-heroes-might-be-cowboys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Plastic Hero © 2008 es
Anything can look heroic&#8211;it&#8217;s all in the way the lights and camera work. Maybe that&#8217;s why cowboys in movies don&#8217;t say too much. All candidates on Campaign Trail &#8216;08 have to keep talking, but the more they talk, the less heroic they seem. It&#8217;s a problem, buckaroos and buckarettes. I think they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maverick; or, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child</title>
		<link>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/08/maverick-or-sometimes-i-feel-like-a-motherless-child/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cowboylands.net/2008/10/08/maverick-or-sometimes-i-feel-like-a-motherless-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bucko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MAVERICK. Ask not how many times you can say a word, but why you need to say the word so many times in the first place.
&#8220;Maverick.&#8221; Thou shalt not repeat a word in the hopes that it sticks. 
&#8220;Maverick&#8221; took on a pop culture tone in the 1950s with James Garner&#8217;s hat-pushed back, insouciant gambler. The [...]]]></description>
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