This generation should be called the Cowboy generation, once films started in production the influence seemed to be the Western.  With the onset of television we began to see such shows as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, My Friend Flicka, Fury, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Wagon Train.  We grew up thinking John Wayne could do just about anything  and if you wore the white hat, you were the good guy.  And good guys always win.  But as time went on Clint Eastwood went from Wagon Train to the Spaghetti Western and we learned that white hats were not always good guys. 

Cowboys were somehow romanicized more so than their sodbuster counterpart.  They both played a role in that era of our history, however on television, Sodbusters were usually getting shot by the bad guys or losing their farm due to the dust bowl.  So much was our love for the Cowboy that we embraced country and western music, so much so that it is becoming more popular than pop and more lucrative than alternative. 

In our technologically based world, there are those that embrace modern, and new styles.  However the pick up truck, blue jeans and cowboy hats are more popular now, than the year I was born.

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