To Garner Foods, which whipped up the first batch of Pete in 1929, the time felt ripe for the “Hot Sauce Old ... Cash-style ballad for a jingle and a fleshed-out identity for its cowboy mascot.

In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen brothers tell a series of stories set in the Old West that turn the classical tropes of the Western genre on their heads. From 1903’s The Great Train ...