Fictional cowboys and cowgirls

Pecos Bill

Pecos Bill ( PAY-kəs) is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. These narratives were invented as short stories by Tex O'Reilly in the early 20th century and are an example of American "fakelore".

The Virginian (novel)

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains is a 1902 Wild West and cowboy novel by American author Owen Wister, set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. Detailing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch, the novel was a landmark in the evolution of the Western genre, as distinguished from earlier short stories and pulp dime novels.