ABSTRACT

There is a moment in Bronco Billy when the obnoxious upper-class heiress, who is unwillingly traveling with Bronco Billy’s band of contemporary “cowboys and Indians,” gets into an argument with Billy and is promptly removed from the truck cab and deposited at the roadside. What she has done to deserve this is to suggest that Billy is “nothing but an illiterate cowboy.” Having got rid of her, Billy warns that “no one talks like that about a cowboy.”