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He made his screen debut as a roughriding hero in 1910 and soon became a star of silent westerns.
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It's been fairly clear from this convention that McCain / Palen is aiming more at the roughriding, tough-as-nails Teddy Roosevelt and less at Reagan.
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"And so the party moved on for an hour or two, with the roguish young roughnecks cutting up merrily at all times, pretending to be cowboys coming to town on pay day, swinging their hats, giving the long yell, and doing roughriding to cut each other away from the side of Mr.D. every now and then, with a noisy laugh of good nature to hide the poisoned dagger.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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