
no they're not, cow boys were litteraly farmboys who romed a wild and untamed country to do shitty jobs to survive another day, they were very individualistic and not very well regarded by the folks arround them at the time, wile samurais were a supperior class of individual compared to the commoners japanese and theyr entire purpose was to serve they're lords interest, mostly on military related matter but not entirely, wich means they were litteraly like european knignts, this part was so crucial that not having a lord to serve would make them a ronin wich were frowned upon and arguably much closer to the image of the cowboy, they did both were realy cool figures to modern eyes tho























