牛仔何以成为美国神话 英文.docVIP

How did cowboys become myth in America? ??????????????? ——analysis about the character of American cowboys ? Abstract: ?? What is the reason why cowboy, a character that only exists in American history?for?about 30 years, became classic and permanent after it disappeared till now? This article tells us the deep effect by the spirits including freedom, heroism and the courage of starting careers, of cowboys on the Americans in these aspects of the cowboys’ generation, development, historical significance and influence. So that we can know how it becomes myth. Key word:?? Cowboy culture, Short-lived, Far-reaching influence ? ???????? When it refers to cowboys, a huge strong and heroic character who wears broad brimmed(宽边的) hat on the head, wears neckerchief around the neck, dresses with doublet（紧身上衣） and wears leather boots. He can ride horse into the troop of robbers and shoot them with no miss. When every robber fell down dead, he will slightly blow the smog coming out from the gunpoint and turned about, leaving. This usual and short-lived image accompanied with every generation of Americans, became the epic character, raised the deep emotion of American and caused lots of mentality campaigns. ??????? ?It raised an interesting question for us that what make cowboy, a character only existing 30 years, become the strongest backbone of American and what make cowboy enduring myth. We can solve the problems in the aspect of history first. ? A、? the background of cowboy’s coming into being ????????? American cows were firstly brought to western Indies by Columbus, and then they expended to northern America. Another part of American cows were brought to Mexico by a explorer Coronado（科罗纳多） in the exploration and then expended to the northern America. With the expending of the American territory, cows were everywhere in America. Beef price in the northeast America is ten times much than that in south and west America. The high price attract many people to do cow business, in