4. Cowboy
As you may have inferred by the job title, a cowboy is an animal herder, of the cow variety, mainly. Most people when they think about cowboys, are really thinking of Outlaws. Jesse James et al. In popular culture, they're pretty much a stock character. The cliché that began with Clint Eastwood on film, culminated with John Marston in gaming. The popular, award-winning Red Dead Redemption was a godsend for those of us that have always wanted to do those brilliant cowboy things. You know all that awesome western-y stuff, like riding horses through the desert, or hunting animals with no moral ambiguity. Duelling in the streets at sundown, gambling at a saloon or scaring a horse into the path of an oncoming train. That cool, cowboy stuff. But once again, the party must be pooped on entirely. There are famous cowboys, but without using your favourite search engine that rhymes with frugal, you'd be hard pressed to mention any which weren't fictional characters. The spaghetti western has permeated throughout culture in a case of art, imitating life, imitating art, and so on, off into infinity. Still, just because the modern day image of the cowboy got tangled up with cigarette advertising, films and being an outlaw, that doesn't mean that cowboys, and the whole genre of westerns, aren't and isn't, bloody brilliant. After all, who doesn't love listening to the Paint Your Wagon soundtrack with a good old game of Oregon Trail. Mmm. Dysentery. Now that's flavour country.