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Cowboys: Life In The Wild West
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Throughout the world there are many different cultures, some that have changed tremendously throughout centuries and some that have stayed close to the same. Culture means a lot to families, it describes their life, their well-being. It definitely does for the ones that are labeled as a cowboy. Cowboys were hard working men whom worked for long hours at a time. Cowboys have a rough background, a huge part in the Wild West, and a unique culture that sets them apart from others. Cowboys were involved in a lot of crime. Crime was so common that it became apart of the everyday life for the people that lived through the Wild West. “ Frontier towns often did not have any law enforcements, so banks, stagecoaches, and trains were easy

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