The Particular Cowboys is a lost 1914 American silent comedy film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company and starring Frances Ne Moyer and Raymond McKee.
[2] Both The Particular Cowboys and For Two Pins are among the several Lubin split-reel comedies made in the spring of 1914 that include the earliest screen appearances of Oliver Hardy.
[2] Although the film itself does not survive, Hardy can be seen seated at the head of the table in a promotional still printed in The Lubin Bulletin, the studio's advertising newsletter.
[1] The film received mixed reviews: Moving Picture World wrote "The laughs that are won by this half-reel of Lubin comedy will result from one or two bits of genuinely funny 'business' introduced.
The excuse for the action can scarcely be held strong enough to justify all that is done by a bunch of wild and wooly Westerners who are dissatisfied with their ranch cook";[3] but The New York Dramatic Mirror had a more favorable impression: "Rough and ready laughter that spends itself at general good situations and laughable particulars is what makes this short slapstick comedy as good as has been turned out of the Hotaling laughter laboratory in recent times".