Increasingly the public identified the cowboy with courage and devotion to duty, for he tended cattle wherever he had to go, whether in bogs of quicksand; swift, flooding rivers; or seemingly inaccessible brush. He rode with lightning and blizzard, ate hot summer sand, and was burned by the sun.
More and more people saw the cowboy as a symbol of bravery and commitment to his work, because he took care of cattle wherever he had to go, whether in marshy bogs, fast-flowing rivers, or dense, hard-to-reach brush. He rode through storms and blizzards, ate food in scorching summer heat, and was scorched by the sun.