He is best known for being a member of group of outlaw Cowboys that had ongoing conflicts with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp.
Another book, The Cowboys, based on a film treatment he sold to Warner Bros., caused considerable controversy among publishers due to its glimmers of homoeroticism.
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The Cowboys was made into a film in 1972, starring John Wayne.
Frank McLaury (March 3, 1848 - October 26, 1881) was a ranch hand and Cowboys in the American Old West.
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Notable rookie free agents the Cowboys signed prior to the season included Pettis Norman, from Johnson C. Smith University, Mike Gaechter, a track and field athlete as well as a football player, from the University of Oregon, and Cornell Green, a basketball player from Utah State University.
Flanker Frank Clarke caught 10 passes for 241 yards and scored 3 touchdowns in the game, but kicker Sam Baker missed a 35-yard field goal with 13 seconds left and the Cowboys had to settle for a 35–35 tie.
After Dallas had cut the lead to 21–20 in the third quarter, Starr's fourth touchdown pass of the game gave the Packers a 34–20 lead with 5:20 left in the game, but the Cowboys responded with a 68-yard touchdown pass from Don Meredith to Frank Clarke.
The Cowboys responded immediately, as Meredith found former Olympic sprinter Bob Hayes for an 86-yard score, the longest scoring play at the time in NFL Playoff history.
Rashaun Woods then caught a touchdown pass from Josh Fields in the left corner of the end zone, giving the Cowboys the win.
David Akers booted a 51-yard field goal early on, but Reggie Swinton returned the ensuing kickoff 100 yards for the Cowboys.
Despite intercepting Chad Hutchinson twice the 49ers saw the game lead change four times before the Cowboys surged to a 27–17 lead in the fourth quarter.
Hunt was recognized for his contributions to the City of Dallas, and his establishment of the American Football League’s Dallas Texans (now the Kansas City Chiefs), one of the Cowboys’ AFL rivals.
Oklahoma State University crowned 2 individual champions (Johny Hendricks at 165 pounds and Jake Rosholt at 197 pounds) and 4 other Cowboys qualified as All-Americans as the Cowboys earned a dominant victory in the tournament.
All Around Performance Horse Weekly, a show about performance horses and the Cowboys/Cowgirls that ride them
In 2011, after hiring his former Browns defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, the Cowboys signed him to a one-year contract as a free agent and named him the starter at safety.
Three days after his release from the Cowboys, Stenavich was signed to the practice squad of the Houston Texans on September 1, 2008.
In 2003, Bill Parcells was hired as the Cowboys head coach and decided that Gurode's best position was at guard, starting 15 games at that position in 2003 and 13 games in 2004 with mixed results, before getting benched for the final two games.
He played right guard between Hall of Famer offensive tackle Rayfield Wright (1970–1976) and Dave Manders (1970–1972) or John Fitzgerald (1973–1976) at center and helped anchor a dominant offensive line that led the Cowboys to three Super Bowls in that time.
--...and did they compete "in" the documentary, or was the documentary *about* the real life controversy?--> Prior to the 2004 season, the Cowboys signed Vinny Testaverde and acquired Drew Henson, creating yet another quarterback controversy.
He took over the helm in 2004 and led the team to a win in the Las Vegas Bowl over UCLA by a score of 24 to 21, helping the Cowboys to their first bowl victory in 38 years.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie indicated his support of the Cowboys despite the Giants having their home field in his state.
King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (University of Wisconsin Press).
He is part of the Cowboys franchise's legacy of great tight ends that includes: Pettis Norman, Mike Ditka, Billy Joe DuPree, Jackie Smith, Jay Novacek and Jason Witten.
A Harris Interactive poll of Marylanders ranked it the third best in the state behind the Redskins–Cowboys and Ravens–Redskins rivalries.
Eight Kelton novels, Buffalo Wagons, The Day the Cowboys Quit, The Time It Never Rained, Eyes of the Hawk, Slaughter, The Far Canyon, Many a River and The Way of the Coyote, have won Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.
They both helped the Cowboys win Super Bowl VI, making them the only players (along with former teammate Fred Thurston, who was on the Baltimore Colts world championship team in 1958) in professional football history to play on six teams that won World Championships.
In that game, 49ers wide receiver Terrell Owens caught his second touchdown pass of the game and ran to the Cowboys' iconic star logo at midfield to celebrate as he had on the previous touchdown earlier.
The highlight of his career with the Cowboys occurred on Thanksgiving Day, 1994, when Garrett, starting in place of injured back-up Rodney Peete, led the Cowboys over the Green Bay Packers by completing 15 of 26 passes for 311 yards and 2 touchdowns in a second-half comeback.
In 2004, Witten had 87 catches, eleventh most in history by a tight end and a Cowboys team record for the position, and was selected to his first Pro Bowl, becoming a part of the Cowboys franchise's legacy of great tight ends that includes: Jim Doran, Lee Folkins, Pettis Norman, Mike Ditka, Billy Joe DuPree, Jackie Smith, Doug Cosbie and Jay Novacek.
After high school in New Jersey, Kiick went west and played college football at Wyoming from 1965 through 1967, and was the Cowboys' leading rusher each of those years.
In 1993 he was part of one of the most famous Thanksgiving football plays, when he blocked a 47-yard field goal attempt from the Miami Dolphins' Pete Stoyanovich, to preserve what seemed an apparent 14-13 victory, but as the ball rolled toward the Cowboys' end zone, Leon Lett kicked the ball and the Dolphins recovered.
Before playing for the Cowboys, he played for the Ipswich Jets and the Northern Pride in the Queensland Cup.
In 2001, he was suspended for the final preseason game and the first regular season game and fined for missing curfew when the Cowboys traveled to Mexico City to play the Oakland Raiders in the American Bowl.
In 1986 season, although he never played a down of college football, he signed with the Dallas Cowboys as a rookie undrafted free agent, following on the foot steps of Cornell Green, Peter Gent, Percy Howard and Ken Johnson, as basketball players that were converted by the Cowboys to play professional football.
After meeting with the Cowboys and Kansas City Chiefs, it was reported that Vlasic signed a two-year deal with the Chiefs in March, with Vlasic's agent confirming but Chiefs general manager Carl Peterson denying it.
In the 1970 NFC title game, Renfro had a key interception that led to the Cowboys' game-winning touchdown over the San Francisco 49ers that helped them get to Super Bowl V, where they lost to the Baltimore Colts.
The three 1st round and three 2nd round picks eventually netted the Cowboys Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson, and Russell Maryland and three Super Bowl rings.
He holds the record for Super Bowl rings won by a coach with six, winning three with the Cowboys and three with the New England Patriots.
Despite the Cowboys' problems over the years, Zimmer survived several coaching changes (Switzer, Chan Gailey, Dave Campo, Bill Parcells) and was rumored to have been a candidate for the head coaching job at the University of Nebraska (circa 2003).
With the release of Terrell Owens, Austin started the regular season as the Cowboys' No. 3 receiver.
On New Year's Eve, 1947, the Flying L Ranch near Davis was the site for the marriage of Roy Rogers, "King of the Cowboys," and Dale Evans.
In 2009, he was yet again the number two receiver behind Roy Williams after the Cowboys cut Terrell Owens, who signed with the Buffalo Bills soon after.
Still, he would become part of the Cowboys lore and was named #6 on NFL Top 10's Top Ten One-Shot Wonders.
Clark Hall Pub has also been home to many successful acts, including The Tragically Hip, Bedouin Soundclash, Poison Ibey, Arkells, Arcade Fire, as well as crowd favourites Horse and Mule, The Radical Dudez, The Cowboys and satirists Khaki Snack.
The Paul Downes song "Robert and the Cowboys" was inspired by the project and describes a number of the vagrants.
In 1983, the Cowboys finished 8-4 and Hilger was recognized as the Most Valuable Player in the 1983 Bluebonnet Bowl.
Amongst the local acts, there was the aforementioned Half-Life, Watch for Busses, The Cynics, S.M.D.(Screaming Mailboxes of Destiny), Boystown, The Beating, The Cowboys from Hell, the past three mentioned bands all had members in common which were Phil Crists (drums) Mike Kastelic currently of the Cynics (vocals) Rick Pegg (guitar/vocal) who died in 2008 and Ron Cambest (guitar/vocal).
Their general manager, Carl Peterson, asked the league to investigate whether the Cowboys had tampered, after the Cowboys hired Barry Switzer (Casillas's former coach at Oklahoma ).
According to Lesley Sharp the "cowboys" of ZWAM "assumed a style of dress reminiscent of Clint Eastwood, a loner recognized as the 'champion of real justice' over 'the venal guardians of formal law'".