Brokeback Mountain Themes

You would do Brokeback Mountain an injustice if you boiled it down to a "gay cowboy" movie. That's like calling the Kentucky Derby just a "horse race" or Justin Bieber "annoying." All of these are...

The American West's alluring because men dream a better life awaits them way out there. The wild, wild west promises freedom, land, and lots of cowboys in tight jeans. What more could a man want?As...

You often think of the cowboy as a lone figure, just a man and his horse out on the wide open range. But eventually, a cowboy finds a cowgirl and they settle down and have little cowkids. Maybe eve...

A talented cowboy can twirl his lasso into all sorts of shapes. Squares. Circles. Stars. And a heart for the ones they love. At least, the cartoon cowboys can do that. Real life cowboys have to exp...

You'll never see "cowboy" on Forbes' list of richest people in the world. Country singer? Perhaps. And who knows, maybe Mark Zuckerberg likes to wear ten-gallon hats and play with ropes in his spar...