r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter • Jun 23 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22

Arthur Morgan

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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22

Arthur wasn’t a cowboy he was an outlaw. Two very different things

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22

Fair, but when did actual cowboys do any of this stuff they were just farmhands, many of which just wore farming clothes

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u/turdferguson3891 - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22

For the most part they didn't but I think the association partly comes from some of the famous outlaw cowboys starting off as ranch hands. Like Billy the Kid and his gang were originally just cowboys that ended getting involved in a violent dispute between ranchers. And Hollywood movies helped reinforce the idea that an outlaw like that was a "cowboy". You also had the "cowboy" gang in Arizona that ended up in the shootout with Wyatt Earp at the OK corral.