Anne Helen Petersen

Anne Helen Petersen is a features writer at BuzzFeed. She received her PhD in media studies at the University of Texas and is the author of Scandals of Classic Hollywood 2014.

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A cowboy’s hand resting on a saddle horn with a coiled rope, wearing a dark hat under a clear blue sky.

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What is a dude?

How the strange history of the ‘dude’ helps throw a light on why the West still feels like the real America

Anne Helen Petersen