Red River Question

As we watched the movie "Red River," we were supposed to think about how the movie portrays the cowboys and how that's different from what we learned in class. In the movie, the cowboys were extremely stereotypical. In the west during that time, they did have hats to protect them from the sun and boots to stay on their horse, but the other getup was completely unnecessary. It was historically inaccurate to portray the cowboys in such a way.