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From Altair to Cowboy —— The Four Spread Level of the Cowboy LegendrnAbstract：The first spread level of the legend is that the star which called Altair is closely related with the ancients＇ lives and is buried the declination for the later legends. The seconffspread level is that the Altair, the important landscape of the capital, had turned into stars＇ in- carnation in ancient portraits and got the male humanoid. Furthermore,Altair had been given emotions,got married with Vega,concacted with human beings and became the secular immortal,this is the third level. At last,Altair rooted in the-folk,got brother and sister-in-law, to be a cowboy and was called the Altair,this is the forth level. The cumulative progression finally lead to the Star. The circuitous and tor- tuous spread levels made the cowboy legend unceasing richly,and spread around through the ages.