Be the cowboy. It’s a hell of a phrase. The cowboy is the archetypal figure of the American mythos: the self-determining young traveler, wandering the expanse of the frontier, beholden to no one. Even if you’ve never watched a Western, the appeal of the cowboy is probably somewhere baked into your soul. If you’re American — if you’ve ever really thought about America — it’s in there. It’s never leaving. In the movies, and in the attending myths, the cowboy breezes into town, gets into adventures, meets a girl, and then rides off into the sunset. The challenge, then, is to not be the girl of the story, pining for that romantic figure who will...
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