Thomas McGuane

"Cowboy" by McGuane was an interesting story and it reminded of the feature film, "Open Range" because of how the relationship was between the old man and the younger man. Over time, like "Open Range", both men began trusting each other and started to enjoy working together on the ranch. I believe the reasoning behind this is mainly that both men thought of themselves as the last of a "dying breed", pertaining to the life of the cowboy, which forged a strong but unlikely bond between the two of them. I really enjoyed how McGuane portayed the old man's character in particular because that is how I enviosioned an old cowboy of that era, hard headed and set in his ways. I particularly enjoyed the old man's comments about how you would never catch him help feeding a frenchman's mouth, words spoken like a true American cowboy. One of the issues I had with the story was why did the author not try and make more of an effort to give more background on the brother and sisters history?