Cowboy names, no. 3

Hairoil Johnson

Lately I have posted a couple lists of cowboy names from the early westerns I have been reading. Here is the last set of them for now. My favorite out of this bunch is Eleanor Gates’ cowboy, Hairoil Johnson.

Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders

Wind River Smith

Agamemnon G. Jones

Cock-Eyed Peterson

Bronc Thompson

Eleanor Gates, Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher

Hairoil Johnson

Buckshot Milliken

Monkey Mike

Skinflint Curry

Chub Flannagan

G. Frank Lydston, Poker Jim, Gentleman

Three-Fingered Jack

Tennessee Dick

Dennis H. Stovall, The Gold Bug Story Book

Shorty Sanders

Faro Fett

Eucher Buck

Spanish Fly

Buck Tyson

Pegleg Jim

Edgar Beecher Bronson, Reminiscences of a Ranchman

Llano Lew

Tobacco Jake

Edgar Beecher Bronson, The Red-Blooded

Lee Skeets

Racketty Smith

Mancos Mitch

Lame Johnny

Bill Ball

Chillili Jim

Tit Moody

Pauline Wilson Worth, Death Valley Slim and Other Stories

Shorty Rogers

Charles G. Roberts, The Backwoodsmen

Bird Pigeon

Samuel Merwin, The Road-Builders

Purple Finn

Robert Alexander Wason, Happy Hawkins

Happy Hawkins

Cast Steel Judson

Tank Williams

Slinky Bill

Buck Harmon

Charles Alden Seltzer, The Two-Gun Man

Roper Jones

Wrinkles

Skinny

Lazy

Soapy

Max Brand, The Untamed

Whistling Dan

Jim Silent

If you missed the other lists, they can be found here and here.

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Image credits:

Hairoil Johnson, illustrator, George Gibbs

Coming up: Robert Ames Bennet, Out of the Depths (1913)