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American Experience: Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

American Experience (1988)

Documentary | United States

Director: David Grubin, Stephen Ives

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SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 6 - Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

SYNOPSIS

A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Although very much the same as it was one hundred years ago -- tough, lonely, but still romantic -- ranching is now a threatened way of life.

Actors

Voice: Callie Thorne, Jefferson Mays, Nancy Groce, Ron Bobb Semple, Peter Hermann, Jay Gregory, Ping Wu

Writer: David Grubin, Mark Zwonitzer

Narrator: Will Lyman, Philip Bosco

RUNTIME: 55 min

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