as in cowboys
a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range
cowpunchers hanging out and telling stories during branding time
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cowboys
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That unlikely combo provides a compelling opportunity for DiCaprio to sample a few lines of indigenous dialogue with his character’s offspring, and suggests a unique complication of the traditional cowboys-and-Indians trope through a revisionist lens.—
Eric Kohn,
IndieWire,
25 Feb. 2026 -
The Mexican cowboys became adept at everything from calving to branding to overseeing the kind of long-distance cattle drives that later became a staple of the western.—
Foreign Correspondent,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Cowpunchers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowpunchers. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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