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The myth of the cowboy grew purer every year because there were so few actual cowboys left to contradict it. Larry McMurtry, 1989 (Preface to “In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas” Why did I spend the last month winding my way through the story of the cowboy in film and literature? This wasn’t a self-indulgent opportunity to talk about some of my favorite fiction. Well, it ...