Ranchers

Usage examples of cowmen.

Beaver, the seller of the herd, was expecting us, and sending word of our arrival to neighboring cowmen, we looked over the corrals before returning to camp.

On the arrival of the train, several other westward-bound cowmen boarded it.

In entertaining company he was in a class by himself, and spoke with marked familiarity of all the prominent cowmen in southern Texas.

The most plausible theory that I could advance was that some friendly cowmen were playing a joke on him, and that the old man had taken things too seriously.

But the sheriff and those two old cowmen were determined, and the young fellow probably acted for the best in making a graceful surrender.

Several cowmen, ranching on the lower Powder River, had headquarters at this outpost.

These local cowmen would support the established authority, and trouble was expected.

During the few hours which we spent in Miles, the cattle interests were duly aroused, and a committee of cowmen were appointed to call on the post commander at Keogh with a formidable protest, which would no doubt be supplemented later, on the return of the young lieutenant and his troopers.

Horses were tendered us, and saddling one I crossed the Yellowstone and started down the river to arouse outlying ranches, while Sponsilier and a number of local cowmen rode south to locate a camp and a deadline.

We limited our losses at poker to so much an evening, and what we won from the merchant class we invariably lost among the volunteer guards and cowmen, taking our luck with a sangfroid which proved us dead-game sports, and made us hosts of friends.

There was always a rabble element in every frontier town, and no doubt, as strangers, they could secure assistance in quarters that the local cowmen would spurn.

Very few of the quarantine guards returned to town, and with the exception of Sheriff Wherry, none of the leading cowmen, all having ridden direct for their ranches.

Sanders will count for us, and you cowmen ought to agree on the numbers.

The early cowmen of Texas flatter themselves on being shrewd and far-seeing--just about as much as I was last fall, when I would gladly have lost twenty-five thousand dollars rather than winter these cattle.

The crowd would be coming from the Texas line, cowmen with fist-sized wads of money.