Who is your favorite Cowboy?

It would be a toss up between Slim Honeycutt, Cimmarron, and stuttering Bob Wilson. Those three were my favorites out of that young bunch.

SPOILER ALERT!

I still crack up everytime I watch that scene where Bob calls Mr. Anderson an SOB. That's a classic, there. Or where Cimmaron gives the final death blow to Bruce Dern's character. The look on Cimarron's face says it all as he raises his Colt .45 and fires off that shot. You can tell that he has been wanting to do that to Dern's character since Mr. Anderson was bushwhacked.

Hardy (Clay) and Homer (Mike)

I have two favorite Cowboys, Stuttering Bob, played by Sean Kelly and Charlie, played by Stephen Hudis. I've been a fan of theirs since I saw the movie in the theater and I was 10.

Cimarron, without a doubt, I grew up watching this with my dad, and I had the hugest crush on him!!!
"Was it a ghost? Was it fun?" Midge, Vertigo

Stuttering Bob, since I was a kid.

Cimmaron, because he was the most skilled and didn't have a family; as well as Hardy, because he was the youngest & smallest, but still held his own equally with the others.

Just got this film on DVD and am re-living this oldie. LOL I went w/my mother to see this film at Radio City when I was a child (John Wayne made a special appearance!) and fell in love w/Homer as soon as I saw that pretty face.

This is a trickier question than it seems. The cowboys aren't equal in screen time or lines. How could they be with so many of them? And all of them wearing Western gear and hats to boot. Cimarron and Slim stand out because they're older, bigger and have enough lines to be fairly major characters. A few have notable identifying characteristics: Dan wore glasses, Fats was. well..., Bob stuttered. A few were notable for a major plot event: Weedy steals the whiskey bottle and is also roughed up (off camera) by Asa, Dan is terrified by Asa and Charlie dies.

The first time I saw the film, in 1972, I could hardly tell one from another except for Slim and Cimarron. I've seen it four times since the advent of the VCR and still, when I read the Full Cast names am not sure who Steve or Jimmy Philips are. Maybe since I'm sure to watch it again some time, I'll watch with identifying each cowboy in mind.

It might have been nice if they had done what many movies did in the 30's and 40's and shown a few seconds of each one with his character and real name with the end credits. I see I haven't actually answered the question yet. I guess Weedy and Dan. They both start out as kids but go through some scary things to grow up.