Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context US English) A cowboy or skilled horseman who routinely rides through the rural countryside. 2 (context US English) In the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_West, a mounted worker employed on a cattle drive. n. 1 (context US English) A cowboy or skilled horseman who routinely rides through the rural countryside. 2 (context US English) In the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_West, a mounted worker employed on a cattle drive.
Usage examples of "trailhand".
Over by the bar a good-looking boy in the dusty clothes of a trailhand just in from Virginia City and his oxlike older brother had gotten into a vociferous argument over a girl with a dark-haired gambler, their voices rising higher and higher over Ishmael’s quiet instructions to Jason.
Why, I can't even get two old trailhands on kitchen-duty to follow my orders.
Seth didn't know that, and if he was a good little trailhand, he would never have to find out.