Names for a cowboy in American English include "buckaroo", "cowpoke", "cowhand", and "cowpuncher". Downing worked as a cowhand at the nearby ranches. After bidding his cowhand friends goodbye, Lat, feeling melancholy, gets drunk and visits Callie. Meanwhile, his son Thomas worked as a cowhand on the Big Pasture. The man in the front middle of the painting is assumed to be a cowhand. As a youth, von Schmidt worked as a cowhand and a construction worker. In 1959, he appeared as cowhand Phil Jakes on the "Gunsmoke" season four episode, "Jayhawkers". Simons catches up and shoots a cowhand, setting off a stampede.