TV ad: "... a real dude ranch"

[Benjamin Barrett]

Today, I found a line claiming "cowboy" should be used only as a verb among (whatever cowboys are supposed to be called).

Bryce Andrews (http://www.waleslit.com/blog/):
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His co-workers there teach him how to worm a horse and ride through the cattle to “settle” them, and never to use the word “cowboy,” except as a verb.
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Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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On May 24, 2014, at 4:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:
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>> I thought a dude ranch was a place where cowboys did cowboy things.
>
>
> Sigh! Well, those of us to whose eye the phrase, "Ken Maynard and Tarzan,
> The Wonder Horse!", brings a tear of nostalgia for childhood past recall
> the "dude ranch" as a vacation resort set up to resemble a "working ranch"
> for the entertainment of "dudes" - i.e. swells, lames, squares - from the
> effete east wanting all of the fun, but none of the work, of the cowboy
> life on the western plains.
>
> In other words, cowboys did do cowboy things on a dude ranch, but only to
> put on a show as entertainment for vacationing dudes. Cf. the
> "professionals" working at ski resorts, for instance.

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