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Hereof, who was Pecos Bill's father?
Pecos Bill was a larger than life hero of the American West. No one knows who first told stories about Pecos Bill. Cowboys may have invented the stories. Others say Edward O'Reilly invented the character in stories he wrote for The Century Magazine in the early nineteen hundreds.
Keeping this in view, what does Pecos Bill invent using a rattlesnake he fights?
In this story, it is said that Pecos Bill invented the art of being a cowboy and the skill of throwing "a special rope called lasso over a cow's head to catch wandering cattle" and that some say it was made with a rattlesnake. He used a lasso to catch Sue and bring her down to Earth.
Pecos Bill, in American folklore, cowboy hero of the Pecos River region of Texas who was an exaggerated personification of Western stamina and values; his vivid exploits are analogous to those of the legendary giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan of the North Woods.