Expand cowboy to mean western hero and he goes back to
Cooper. Plus an argument could be made (actually, has been
made very effectively by John Cawelti) that the private eye
is in many ways the urban version of the western hero.
Okay, so you've batted down my argument about the cowboy
being the most original American icon, what about the jazz
man or Elvis?
Mark
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