The Legend of the Cowboy

(2019) - 24 min

Documentary

Erik Butters just may be the great-grandson of the model for the hero in Owen Wister's Virginian, a book that led to the Cowboy Legend, that of the romantic hero out on the land with nature, living freely, as per the great westerns we all grew up with.

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