What is "ranchers"

Usage examples of "ranchers".

There remained in the harness room--besides Vanamee and Presley--Magnus Derrick, Annixter, old Broderson Harran, Garnett from the Ruby rancho, Keast from the ranch of the same name, Gethings of the San Pablo, Chattern of the Bonanza, about a score of others, ranchers from various parts of the county, and, last of all, Dabney, ignored, silent, to whom nobody spoke and who, as yet, had not uttered a word.

They-- these men around his table on that night of the first rain of a coming season--seemed to stand in his imagination for many others--all the farmers, ranchers, and wheat growers of the great San Joaquin.

Except, of course, when the rancher donated money to rebuild the school when it burned, and loaned money to the small ranchers when a drought all but wiped them out one year.

Pretty soon the word got out that I was fast with a gun and ranchers up north started hiring me to keep out the squatters.

These uncouth brutes of farmhands and petty ranchers, grimed with the soil they worked upon, were odious to him beyond words.

During the time when the ranchers of the county were fighting the grainrate case, S.

He had returned to Bonneville only recently, a decision adverse to the ranchers being foreseen.

But for all that, the ranchers about Bonneville knew whom to look to as a source of trouble.

Annixter was persuaded, received a subsidy from the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad, and was hardly better than the mouthpiece by which Shelgrim and the General Office spoke to ranchers about Bonneville.

Magnus Derrick and old Broderson and Osterman and all the ranchers of the county.

Dabney, the old man whom nobody knew, approached the group of ranchers around Magnus Derrick and stood, a little removed, listening gravely to what the governor was saying, his chin sunk in his collar, silent, offering no opinions.

It was not alone the ranchers immediately around Bonneville who would be plundered by this move on the part of the Railroad.

By striking at the Bonneville ranchers a terrible precedent was established.

The clearer the assembly of ranchers understood the significance of this move on the part of the Railroad, the more terrible it appeared, the more flagrant, the more intolerable.

The new committee accordingly had two objects in view: to resist the attempted grabbing of their lands by the Railroad, and to push forward their own secret scheme of electing a board of railroad commissioners who should regulate wheat rates so as to favour the ranchers of the San Joaquin.