A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

Usage examples of cowpuncher.

Above it rose a cowpuncher hat, then a silk shirt with a string tie, and after that a sage baggage burro with clipped ears, a solemn-faced pony, and an Indian.

Jack, fondling the flat-brimmed cowpuncher model of affectionate predilection.

But tossing a cowpuncher hat out of a window into Broadway was easier than tossing a thing out of mind.

Line-riders and dry farmers and irrigators had pushed the cowpuncher to one side.

Maisie Winters had called Billie looked sharply at the cowpuncher out of shrewd gray eyes.

He conceded the boyish cowpuncher a beautiful trim figure, with breadth of shoulder, grace of poise, and long, flowing muscles that rippled under the healthy skin like those of a panther in motion.

Only by his catlike agility and the toughness born of many clean years in the saddle did the cowpuncher weather for the time the hurricane that lashed at him.

Often Baldy Cummings, who liked the cowpuncher because Steve was always willing to help him get the properties ready for the required sets, would put on the gloves with him and try him out for a round or two.

He was no longer dressed in the outfit of a cowpuncher, but wore a gray street suit and a Panama straw hat.

They were halfway across the open when the cowpuncher plunged to the ground again.

The haggard eyes of the cowpuncher asked a question before his lips framed it.

He glared at the cowpuncher as if he would like to murder him on the spot.

The teeth of the cowpuncher clenched tightly till the muscles of the jaw stood out like ropes.

Fatty was almost as much doctor as he was marshal, cowpuncher, miner, and gambler--a roll of cotton and another roll of bandages.

There is the story, for instance, of the cattleman who saw the bull-fight in Juarez, and when the bull gored the first horse the cowpuncher rose in the crowd and sent a bullet through the picador to square the deal.