It turned out that the cowboys had been arrested for lassoing a Norwegian homesteader who had cut their wire.
When the multitude of orders was out of the way, Bucks wired Ed Banks to bring his cowboys down to McCloud on 60.
Harvey and thecowboys splintered the panel in a twinkling, and Banks, with a few clean strokes, cut an opening.
While Harvey and Banks clawed at the spikes the cowboys wrestled with the nuts on the bolts of the fish-plates.
I Siclone Clark was one of the two cowboys who helped Harvey Reynolds and Ed Banks save 59 at Griffin the night the coal-train ran down from Ogalalla.
This is a spicy account of real experiences among Indians and cowboys on the plains and in the mountains, and will be read with a great deal of interest by all who are fond of an adventurous life.
Even cowboys kept their ranches, and through the gloom of noon the sun cast a coward shadow.
An' us cowboys allus sing out ef tew calm The scare, ef we can, of a runnin' herd.
An' them cowboys slept in the leetle camp, Calm es three kids in a truckle bed; Declar the crash wus enough tew put Life in the dust of the sleepin' dead!
Well, I guess we can move on now," said Jerry, as the last of the steers and cowboys was lost in a cloud of dust that accompanied them.
The cowboys can't see us, and they're simply driving the steers on.
Then, the last of the steers galloped past, with a band of excited cowboys in the rear, vainly endeavoring to understand the cause of the stampede, and halt it.
That mob of cowboys took delight, no doubt, in scattering consternation as they passed.
As the cowboys followed the graceful retreating figures of the girls, Lawson and Curtis looked at each other with eyes of amazement; Lawson acknowledged a mighty impulse to laugh.
He's one of the handsomest young cowboysyou ever saw.
These cowboys wouldn't be so foolish as to fire a first shot.
Calvin was singularly close-mouthed about her, but one or two of the cowboys who had chanced to meet her with the agent spread the most appreciative reports of her beauty and of the garments she wore.
With a patter of jocose remarks the cowboys rode off down towards the creek, taking the sheriff's horse along with them.
He is away with Tailfeathers to keep the cowboys from our land.
As Elsie looked at the swarming figures of the cowboys her mind forecasted tragic events.
He turned to Crow and signed: "Go tell your people I will not let the cowboys hurt them.
They'd simply borrow a gun of some one, and it won't do to disarm the whole tribe, for if you do these cowboys will swarm in here and run us all out.
He don't want to hurt any one else, he says; only the cowboys and their war chief, so he says.
Two cowboys followed her shortly and claimed the pony, which bore a C C C brand, and I gave it up to them.
At first the railroads demurred, but the cowboys lined up in the "bresh" on some dark night and pumped Winchesters into the train in a highly picturesque way.
How well the cowboys serve their masters I can only guess, since the big owners do not dare go into the woods, or even to their own doors at night, and they do not keep a light burning in the houses.
With me cowboys are what gems and porcelains are to some others.
Shortly one of the cowboys of the street scene floundered in.
Presently I saw the cowboys scrambling up the bank as if to get out of our way; then the President on his fine gray stallion scrambling up the bank with his escort, and looking ominously in my direction, as we thundered by.
The cowboys had always treated him with the utmost courtesy, both on the round-up and in camp; "and the few real desperadoes I have seen were also perfectly polite.
It's always been hard to get help here; cowboysseem to think it's a disgrace to ride fence.
It was a sight to see the big engine round the curve below, its plume of smoke rising straight for twenty feet, streaming back like a running girl's hair, the cowboys all set in their saddles, waiting to go.
Racing was one of the main diversions when the cowboys from the surrounding ranches met at Misery on a Sunday afternoon, or when loading cattle there.
The engineers all knew what to expect on a Sunday afternoon when they approached Misery, where the cowboys came through the fence and raced the trains on the right-of-way.
At the starting-point the Duke waited alone; at the station a crowd of cowboys lolled in their saddles, not caring to make a run to see the finish.
Both cowboys got up, slow, an' watchin' of each other.
And, Ken, the cowboys and lions are not all that interest me.
There were pleasant-voiced introductions among the gentlemen, and the blue-coats and cowboys mingled freely with the lancers and rancheros.
He had specified blue-coats and cowboys with thoughtful care for the future of his band, if not for the treaty, but he had said nothing at all about Chiricahua scouts.
They were now provided with blankets, and the white chief of the cowboys even went further.
Two hours later the cavalry squads and the cowboys began to straggle back to the spring.
Both of them knew that the cowboys and the blue-coats intended to march away early the next morning, and it added more than a little to their respect for the Apache manitou who managed the Cold Spring water-works.
He had no fear of any bodily harm to his children, but their capture by the cowboys had suddenly put a new element into all the plans he had made.
Some work was done by scouting cowboys that afternoon in the vicinity of the ranch.
They knew from him that their band was to leave no trail behind it, and that the son of the long chief of the cowboys was as much a prisoner as they were.
He and the cowboys faithfully and warily threaded the part of the chaparral through which they had marched in the earlier hours of that eventful day.
The cowboys had opinions of their own, and most of them looked a little blue.
At Rio Blanco we rattle past a great cotton factory, its myriad lights twinkling into such a confusion of illumination that it looks like a swarm of fireflies hovering amid the darkened houses and huts of the town.
But the curious thing is that you never see them look at one another.
Early rising is accounted a virtue in most countries; in Yucatan it has become a vice.
In the centre of the front, which looks northward, is an arch 10 feet wide, leading into what was once the courtyard of the building.
No sooner did Cyclops feel the first pressure of the load, which we adroitly brought up on his blind side, than he plunged and bucked like the veriest broncho, throwing the baggage into the dust.
I inquired of one of the cowboys how far it was to a near-by mountain.
The cowboys have tying contests in which a steer is sometimes caught and tied in less time than a minute.
The first intimation which the inmates had that the ranch had been robbed was when the cowboys went in the morning to get their horses they found them gone.
When camp is made and everything ready for work the cowboys ride out in different directions and drive in all the cattle they can find.
At a round-up all of the cowboys sleep on the ground.
The cowboys at the ranch had received warning that there were Indians about and had brought in the horse herd from the range and locked them in the corral.
Cowboys profess to believe that the plant has some kind of sense as they say that it jumps and takes hold of its victim before it is touched.
Usually the thief is a dishonest neighbor or one of his own cowboys who becomes thrifty at his employer's expense.
In fact, the alert, quiet manner of all the cowboys was not reassuring.
I intend to make life a little more worth living for them and for the cowboys of this range.
From the top of a ridge Madeline saw down into a hollow where a few of the cowboys had stopped and were sitting round a fire, evidently busy at the noonday meal.
The cowboys edged away from the vaqueros and the bronzed, bearded horsemen who were evidently Hawe's assistants.
Then the cowboys do the cuttin' out an' the brandin'.
Then she vividly remembered a moving picture she had seen--cowboys playing a monstrous joke on a lone school-teacher.
Three cowboys were lazily and unconcernedly attending to camp-fire duties, such as baking biscuits, watching the ovens, and washing tins and pots.
Cowboys appeared staggering out of the corridor with long boxes.
Then he led the way, and the other cowboys trotted in the rear.
She remembered that Stewart had wanted to come with them, or detail a few cowboys to accompany them, but Alfred had laughed at the idea and would have none of it.
Several cowboys spread tarpaulins upon the ground and began to select and roll small packs, evidently for hurried travel.
Bill, surely the cowboys would get that stuff out the first thing," replied Alfred, anxiously.
Stewart directed cowboys to go to the head of the open place in the cliff and let down lassoes.
He liked to help around the camp, and the cowboys could not keep him from it.
She could not thank him, and her reply was merely a request that he tell Nels and other cowboys off duty to come up to the house.
Miss Isobel blushed in adorable payment of his compliment, but thrust back at him: "We bar cowboys in the Sacred Thirty-six.
He had often read of the practical jokes that cowboys are supposed always to play on tenderfeet.
Several citizens had joined the cowboys and added their bullets against Buck.
Like the untrammeled coyote, their bed was where sleep overtook them; their food, what the night wrapped in a sense of security, or the generosity of the cowboys of the Bar-20.
He was a good rider, as allcowboys are, and was not afraid of anything that lived.
As he came in he was fired at by a group of ugly cowboys from a ranch known as the C 80.
The saloon was deserted and a crowd of angry cowboys surrounded their chum-aboy.
Some few minutes later a whooping, bunched crowd of madly riding cowboys thundered past him and he was recognized.
Over in the Houston hotel a crowd of cowboys was lounging in the barroom.
At this time it became the Mecca of two score or more joyous cowboys from the neighboring ranches, who livened things as those knights of the saddle could.
There's a lot to that," the foreman of the cowboys agreed.
Without a word the cowboys followed his example, turning pockets inside out to prove they could give no more.
A half dozen cowboys were camped there with a pack outfit, meaning to ride the canyons next day for cattle.
The cowboysobligingly built a bonfire before the tent, into which the couple retired to set their stage and tune their instruments.
I only said coffee because father told me cowboys drink it a great deal.
At the same time forty cowboys were disclosed to the astonished gaze of the Cresville lads.
And the cowboys were right, as far as they knew," observed Jerry.
Jerry took Bob's place at the wheel, the others got out and the leader of the cowboys and two of his companions got into the auto.
I dismounted, and the cowboys threw up their hats and cheered the 'tenderfoot.
The cowboys yelled with delight at this, crying, 'Turner, did you hear that?
The cowboys turned their guns on the little outfit, but the sheepmen now discovering what was going on, gave a mighty yell and swept down on their enemy.
It was the fault of the outlaw cowboys that he did not.
If that had ever hit me, you never would have known how the other trick is worked," he said, while the cowboys laughed uproariously at the fellow's surprise when he found that his fist had not landed.
The cowboys did not know what had happened, but they knew that the boy from the Simms ranch had done something to their companion that for the instant had taken all of the fight out of him.
The cowboys gave way before the resistless rush, and whirling their ponies, raced for the foothills, with the pursuers shooting and yelling as they lashed and spurred their ponies after them.
And for a moment the cowboysstood speechless with amazement.
There were nine strangecowboys there, all of whom, however, seemed to be well acquainted with Mr. Sturgis and Hugh and Rube and Joe.
As they rode by the stables and up to the house, one of the cowboys called out to Hugh, "Why don't you carry your meat instead of making the kid pack it?
After supper that night, Jack sat down near three or four of the cowboys who were smoking their pipes and cigarettes by the corner of the house, and listened to their talk.
When they reached the house they found that a number of the tired cowboys were already rolled up in their blankets, and sleeping.
A man who caught a colt in this fashion was much laughed at by the other cowboys and advised to take lessons in roping.
The cowboys were all good-natured and very friendly with him, and chaffed him as he ran here and there, trying to carry out their orders.
There are cowboysand Indians and wild animals of all sorts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowboys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
