Does anyone recall how cowboys were all the rage in the 60’s when I was young?
Cowboy and Indian outfits were also in the shops.
There were many TV series and movies.
James Stewart, John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Gary Cooper.
The Females were nearly always distressed and got in the way. Ruined a good Western.
The native Americans (called Indians in them thar days) were always evil.
The Lone Ranger was the one I remember best.
I had a lot of colouring books with cowboys in them.
I’m sure there are modern Cowboy Movies being made they they get scant advertising
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And the fifties.The Big Country,High Noon,The Searchers,Rio Bravo…etc…
Davy Crockett was very popular then too,I got his hat from Woolworths.
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What was Daniel Boone classified as?
I know he was a man, Yes, a BIG MAN with an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was he.
Don’t know anything about him.I think he was on the tv when I was taking more interest in girls.
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i still enjoy a good cowboy film, stick 'em up
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An episode of Hopalong Cassidy was always shown in Saturday Morning Pictures at the local cinema in the days before television. Our smartly dressed true western hero. 
Edit: Thinking about it. That would more be in the 1950s.
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The earliest cowboy I remember was Roy Rogers and Trigger, also known as King of the Cowboys. 
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I loved cowboy films,i was always on the indians side though.
I loved the big chiefs and their wolves.
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I remember Roy Rogers and Trigger too Mags, he was my sister’s favourite - though I think Trigger swung it in that direction because my sister was horse mad. I favoured Hopalong Cassidy - I seem to remember there was a song went something like ‘Hopalong Cassidy clippity clippity clop’ - or is my memory playing tricks on me?
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“Gunsmoke” was the most popular one.
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Hopalong Cassidy had a white-bearded friend called Gabby Hayes.
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Paladin aka Richard Boone 
Have Gun, Will Travel.
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You’re correct Margaret
Hopalong Cassidy Clippity clippity clop,
Hopalong Cassidy Clippity clippity clop,
He rides by day, he rides by night,
His gun by his side 'cos he can fight,
Hopalong Cassidy got 'em on the run,
Hopalong Cassidy hand upon your gun,
Once upon the trail you’ll bet he’ll never stop,
So Hopalong Cassidy clippity clippity clop.
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Thank you Mags, good to know the song does actually exist!
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The media got too woke to show that sort of stuff now.
Tombstone and Butch and Sundance were my favourites…But no injuns in those.
Incidentally, The Shadows named a lot of their early records associated to Indians…
Apachie, Peace Pipe, Geronimo, The Savage, Wonderful Land…etc
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Replying to Bretrick
Yes Westerns are still being made, they’re often shown on Great Action (channel 33 in UK)
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Plenty of Westerns are shown every day on Freeview channels, you’re looking in the wrong places!
From 1940s -2020s are shown , probably 1960s were best.
I watch them regularly as my 7 year old grandson is obsessed with them and has all the clothes and weapons which are still sold on Amazon, eBay etc.
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Oooo, I loved all of these, and my dad said Saturdays wouldn’t be Saturdays without walking to the theater to meet his friends for a cowboy movie.
I liked High Chaparral as a kid, but I was too busy running around to watch it for long.
My favorite movie about the west is still Giant. I think it paints the most realistic picture of ranching in the first half of the 20th century.
Off on a tangent…
It’s Interesting to know that back in their heyday, the average cowboy was fourteen years old, and he spent the majority of his time on the range for days at a time mending fences. And those who drove cattle were very young and foolish and wasted most of their money on liquor and wimmin. Good ranchers held back pay until the end of the drives to make sure they didn’t blow every last sent. The drives are also the reason most midwestern towns have very wide main streets.
Most of where my family is from is ranch country, so you are still more likely to see men running around in cowboy hats and boots than not; they are the real deal, though they use a lot more 4 X 4s than horses these days.
I could talk about this day; my great grandpa was a U.S. Marshal in Indian Territory. When his arm was partially shot off in a shootout with a horse thief, he cut the rest off with a knife he kept in his saddle.
Now I return you to your local channel 
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Nope, I never got into those old cowboy films, even as a child , there was something a bit twee about them . Spaghetti westerns however, oh yeah!
Well, I thought I’d try and redeem myself, hence the Marty Robbins link!
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