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Go ahead: call us cowboys.
Everywhere, Americans are called "cowboys." On foreign tongues, the reference to America's western rural laborers is an insult. Cowboys, we are told, plundered the earth, arrogantly rode roughshod over neighbors, and were addicted to mindless violence. So some of us hang our heads in shame. We shouldn't. The cowboy is in fact our Homeric hero, an archetype that sticks because there's truth in it.
Cowboys were of course Plains men--Midwesterners operating from Texas to Kansas to the Dakotas. But their ideas and ideals spread across the continent to our Mountain West as well, even as far as the Alaskan West.
A few years ago, a Canadian anthropologist ...
- -HYDER: Hyder wins contract to provide IT services for Torfaen County Borough.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 23, 1998 700+ words
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- -HYDER: Hyder buys health service computing centre
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 28, 1998 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) October 25, 2002 700+ words
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire February 2, 1999 700+ words
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire February 1, 2000 700+ words
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- SAP (UK): Hyder completes SAP implementation
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire June 15, 1998 700+ words
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