It was a veritable paradise for cow-men and their herds. ❋ Christian Jacq (2002)
His boots were work boots, thick-soled and graceless, vastly different than the boots she and most cow-men preferred. ❋ Merritt, Jackie (1997)
But it was not the Benton of the cow-men that I felt about me. ❋ John G. Neihardt (1927)
But along the sidewalk where the electric-lighted bar-rooms buzzed and hummed, brawny cow-men, booted and spurred, lounged about, talking in that odd but not unpleasant Western English that could almost be called ❋ John G. Neihardt (1927)
In the moonlight the prisoner's face showed very pale, but the cow-men saw that his lips were firmly set, and the hands that caught up the bridle reins did not falter. ❋ Unknown (1921)
You see, the jury is bound to be made up of cow-men an 'ranchers with a sheep-man or two mixed in. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Here there were big corrals, and a pool of water piped down by the cow-men from a spring many miles distant. ❋ Unknown (1916)
In his youth he had seen the thronging myriads of bison, and taken part in the rough life of the border, the life of the cow-men, the buffalo-hunters, and the Indian-fighters. ❋ Unknown (1916)
During the rendition of this affecting ballad the two cow-men remained draped uncomfortably over the barbed-wire barrier, lost in rapturous enjoyment. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
Panhandle there was a limping marshal who felt regrets at mention of his name, and that farther north were other men who had a superstitious dread of undersized cow-men with spectacles. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
The supper-bell pealed out, and he heard the cow-men answer it. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
An instant later the cow-men heard the sounds of a violent slapping mingled with groans. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
An hour later three men, evidently cow-men from their gait and bearing, passed along the main street of Usher and entered the court-house, where they were met by two citizens. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
Balderson then disarmed the cow-men, and, after passing around the drinks, hired the outfit as policemen for the town of Look Out. ❋ William Allen White (1906)
Each breed had some fatal defect, but the cow-men hoped to succeed with a mixed pack, and the day when I was invited to join in a ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
Where there was range-land there must be cattle and men to tend them, and her experience with Western cow-men had not been confined to those of Lynch's type. ❋ Joseph Bushnell Ames (1903)
Fork as anything other than the romantic town she had left -- a list wherein spurred and steel-girt cow-men strode lamely over uneven sidewalks, or swooped, like the red nomads of the desert, in mad troops through the starlit night. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
And as for being shot up by the cow-men, you'll not be disturbed on any national forest. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
It was evident to Virginia that the cow-men, as well as Gregg, were nearly all against the prophet of the future, and she was filled with a sense of having arrived on the scene just as the curtain to a stern and purposeful drama was being raised. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Of gardeners, keepers, cow-men, chauffeurs, footmen, stablemen -- full twenty were supported on those fifteen hundred acres that formed the little Becket demesne. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
