Cayuses

At the end of the trail a man who had killed fifty horses wanted to buy, but we looked at him and at our own, -- mountain cayuses from eastern Oregon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With a pack train of many horses (cayuses from the mountains of eastern Oregon), the four men struck east into the desolate wilderness which lies beyond Mount St. Elias, and then north through the upland region in which the headwaters of the White and Tanana rivers have their source. ❋ Unknown (1926)

They were wild, unbroken "cayuses," and had to be broken then and there. ❋ Hermann Hagedorn (1923)

She whispered Sam to open the coach-door, and quietly took a seat inside; and Sam, with a sense of irritation very unusual with him, climbed reluctantly to his place, giving the "cayuses" the lash in a way that set them off on a keen run. ❋ Frances Fuller Victor (1864)

Sam mounted one of the "cayuses," and made what haste he could after the coach and Wells, Fargo & Company's express-box. ❋ Frances Fuller Victor (1864)

Five thousand he offered, and we were broke, but we remembered the poison grass of the Summit and the passage in the Rocks, and the man who was my brother spoke no word, but divided the cayuses into two bunches, -- his in the one and mine in the other, -- and he looked at me and we understood each other. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I used to think I was a regular rip-snorter when I was a youngster up in Eastern Oregon, sneaking away from camp to ride with the cattle and break cayuses and that sort of thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A horse was between his legs -- a good horse, he decided; one that sent him back to the cayuses he had ridden during his eastern Oregon boyhood. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fifty cayuses of | mine eating their heads off in this dirty kennel of yours, and it'll be a sick time you'll have if you don't hustle them ashore as fast as God'll let you! ❋ Unknown (2010)

The pupils evidently had assembled in the shack, for tied in the shelter of some maples near by were four cayuses and two weary-looking mules. ❋ William S. Hart (N/A)

As they rode away with all their worldly goods packed on a few poor cayuses, I could not help contrasting their present condition with that of thirty years ago. ❋ William Alonzo Allen (N/A)

His feet had never known the luxury of a factory or home-knitted stocking since he had graduated from the home crib, but were put off with gunny sacking which had already seen active service as nose bags for the cayuses. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Tethered to the hitching-post, they noticed, were the team of scare-crow cayuses belonging to Sun Dog and Many Drunks. ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)

So eager were the boys to be off that they fairly bolted their food, and rushed to the corral to saddle their cayuses. ❋ Edward C. Taylor (N/A)

"Got something that beats cayuses," declared Cowboy Jack. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)

This was not an agricultural land, this wild realm of the Selkirks, and all of the animals were originally Indian stock, -- the usual type of mountain cayuses with which most big-game hunters are acquainted. ❋ Edison Marshall (1930)

If I had known who you was, 'Wolf' Darby, I'd have known you knew how to take care of cayuses. ❋ Edison Marshall (1930)

I mistrusted my packin 'a pair of purple ones wouldn't give you the whoopin' cough, so I just sauntered over an 'took a look at the cayuses. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Some moments later, Jack Purdy nosed his horse into the group of cayuses that stood with reins hanging, "tied to the ground," in front of the Long Horn Saloon. ❋ Unknown (1921)