modem cowboy/cowgirlnoun.
A person who lives and works out of a home located in the country.
Example Citation:
"The Rockies are especially fertile ground for a proliferation of workers who, like Tipple, are variously known as the telecommuters, the modem cowboys or, as Philip Burgess, president of the Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the 'lone eagles.'"
Jordan Bonfante Denver, "Sky's the Limit," Time, September 6, 1993