With the Cowboy Gathering returning this weekend,The Telegraph asked The Telegraph asked: “What is your best line of cowboy prose?”

  Sally West

“Drinkin’ whiskey by the fire, all’s well and good ’til you sit on your spurs like a Yankee would.”


Pistol Pete

“Corndogs and cattle, cattle and corndogs, dang, sheep are beautiful.”


Liz Potter

“My campfire’s bright, my chaps are on tight and my horse will take me where I need to go.”

Delmar Gomer Jr. III

“I do dun dang, I dang dun do, I dang dat do.”



Stacy Falk

“Whiskey breath, tight Wrangler Jeans, the ways and means to pork and beans.”

 

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