Being a Cowboy is doing the right thing; common
wisdom born of simple virtues and strong ideals.
It is a strict adherence
to honesty even when it is not in
their best interests. It is having an
inherent sense of justice in a world where the cards
are often stacked against us.
Cowboys try to
hold on to enough
common sense to recognize the value of a lost cause,
and the cost of lost values.
Generally speaking, cowboys
are quietly reserved in all things except freedom,
fresh air and Saturday night.
Constant to friends, they
are more so when friends need
them, less so when they don't.
Familiar with hard work they
know hard knocks and hard roads.
Often given to tears when lesser individuals would
display indifference; they
are given to joy in a few places others would only
find disdain.
Cowboys enjoy plain
living, not because they
relish doing without, but because
they have discovered the treasures within.
And, finally, Cowboys have
that elusive emotion called courage which is, at
worst, a badly directed sense of conceit and, at
best, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.