There are so many stereotypes of the American Cowboy. This picture represents some of them. In the picture the cowboy is next to a fire with his boots on and his hat. With a button-up shirt and chaps and a bandanna around his neck. Behind him there is a wagon with all his stuff. Next to that there is a tent where he must sleep in. Another stereotype is the fire in front of him and him pouring beans into the pot. Not everyone set up a camp like that if anything they would set up camp in their wagon with their family. They would do that do protect them from anything that could have happened. Also not every cowboy looked like that. They mostly looked like everybody else around the town. They were not always living in a tent with a camp set outside of it. The cowboys did struggle a lot with some stuff like the reality of their safety and all the bad things that can happen to them. The reality of their job was that they could of gotten killed by drunk men and could of gotten hurt by them just wandering around like nothing. There were a lot of brave people that thought that they were big and bad and not even the cowboys could of stopped them. Even if they tried.
Hollywood always portrayed them as being the one to always fight in a saloon at a open bar fight. They also portrayed them as being the hero or everything being a party for the cowboy when it was not even that. In old western films they showed the cowboys trying to get girls and getting drunk all the time. Which was not true because most cowboys had a family and kids they were moving west with. A lot of problems arose with cowboys trying to move west. Most of their family died or got sick and were in ill condition. Other problems were that they did not have enough money to make a good life for their family. It was not easy things to go through or having to deal with. It was not a big party and it was not all about getting girls, it was about the struggle they had to go through to get west.
