You couldn't be more wrong. I have known and still do know cowboys (ranchers) so run sheep. In fact, I grew up on a sheep ranch and there wasn't ever a man who epitomized the ideals of a "cowboy" more than my Dad and his Dad.
He was the genuine article....not some phony.
but obviously your dad and gandpa were for sure not pudding eating cakeboys
When I was down San Angelo way, they called such ranchers, "Goat Ropers". Something change?