The American Revolutionary War Defined the Image of the Gunslinging Cowboy

Before the Wild West cowboy, there was the American Revolutionary War cowboy

David Graham
The Knowledge of Everything
8 min readApr 2, 2024

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The crazy thing about the English is that they have fought a lot of civil wars. In fact, between the 12th and the 18th centuries, they fought eight of them. The last of those was the American Revolutionary War.

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David Graham
The Knowledge of Everything

Due to injury I write using voice dictation software. Lover of psychology, science, humour, history, fiction & self-improvement. https://linktr.ee/DavidGraham86