The postwar cowboy craze was so total that Davy Crockett merchandise alone sold 10 million coonskin caps in a single year. Hollywood and early television deliberately shaped the cowboy into a moral ...

I never thought I’d know how to wear cowboy boots, let alone even own a pair, as an adult. To me, they always felt like a costume and inauthentic to my personal style. That changed after I visited ...

Urban Cowboy, the popular ’80s movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger as a contentious couple at odds over jealousy and gender roles set at Gilley’s in Texas, turned 45 years old this summer.