In Yugoslavia, the synonym for the Western—one of the most popular of all Hollywood genres—was the “cowboy film”. However, cowboys as main protagonists are actually quite rare in classic works of the genre. One of those rare instances can be found in *Red River*, the 1948 epic directed by Howard Hawks. The film is based on *The Chisholm Trail*, a 1946 story by Borden Chase originally published in the *Saturday Eveni…