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Pecos Bill riding a tornado across a desert landscape, with Slue-Foot Sue smiling from the moon above the sunset.

Pecos Bill (The Wild Cowboy of the American West)

by Elizabeth Fabowale

October 21, 2025

American Legends·American Local Legends

Once upon a time in the wide, wild land of the American frontier, where the sun burned golden over the plains and coyotes howled beneath the stars, a legend was born. His name was Pecos Bill, and folks said he was the toughest, wildest cowboy that ever lived. Some say he was half coyote, some say he was all man,

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