The grateful cowmenshould throw at least another five thousand into ye editor's coffers.
Well, Si, or whatever other nickname it is, even the toughest-hearted oldcowmen used to kick on having to put such a big brand on critters.
Here was where the cowmen had come up and here was where he could go down.
As he moved forward slowly and cautiously to find a way down the wall he remembered the Mexican's peculiar actions and wondered if he had a hand in helping the cowmen up.
Then after, one by one, the cowmen had filed out of doors, the host produced two corn-cob pipes from a shelf on the wall and tendered one across the littered table.
Even the cowmen he employed, the old hands he and Bess had both known for years, avoided him obviously, stubbornly.
They are many and the cowmen are few; they are rich and we are very poor; how then can a few men whip many, and those armed with the best?
If the old river would git up on its hind legs and walk, forty feet high, and stay there f'r a month, we cowmen would simply laugh ourselves to death.
He turned his horse's head toward Hidden Water, never looking back at the sheep; and the cowmen fell in behind him, glad of an excuse to retreat.
There were some among that little band of cowmen who yelled for action, others who were disgusted enough to quit, and others yet who said nothing, riding by themselves or exchanging furtive glances with Creede.
But to the cowmen it was like all hell broken loose, a confusion, a madness, a babel which roused every passion in their being and filled them with a lust to kill.
Catching the contagion of the flight the tame horses joined in of their own accord, and a howl of exultation went up from the Four Peaks cowmenas they rushed in to complete the overthrow.
Of all the cowmenat Hidden Water, Rufus Hardy was the only man who would discuss the matter at length.
It was like an open book to the cowmen now, that gathering of the sheep along the Alamo--a ruse, a feint to draw them away from the Peaks while the blow was struck from behind.
Pioneer cowmen of various nationalities and their families intermingled and occupied central seats.
A general round-up of the Nueces valley, commencing on the coast at Corpus Christi Bay, had been agreed upon among the cowmen of the country.
You take one of these long-necked cowmen and what does he know outside of cattle.
These Fort Worth cowmen are an easy lot, or yours would never have passed under the classification.
Well, isn't that the way most cowmen got their start?
The way Ned Rector rode that day made those of the cowmen who saw him open their eyes.
The cowmen are sure there is something in the story.
Tad had not sat there long before the noises that the cowmen had spoken of began again.
With this in mind the cowmen were instructed to urge the cattle along at a little stronger pace, that they might all get well over before the night came on.
By the time the cowmen and Pony Riders had refreshed themselves at the spring near which the outfit had camped, a steaming hot breakfast had been spread on the ground, with a slicker for a table cloth.
He was burning with impatience to get within roping distance of the steer before they got so far away that the cowmen would be unable to see the performance.
The cowmen had brought some sort of order out of the chaos and were beginning to breathe easier.
Pleased that they had been given a task to perform, the boys rode away, Tad and Walter going in one direction, while Ned Rector galloped off in another, that they might reach the cowmen in the shortest possible time.
It just happens that cowmen fall into a run of hard luck in that neighborhood now and then.
Quirts and ropes were brought into use to check these individual rushes, the cowmen fearing to use their weapons lest they alarm the herd and bring on a stampede.
Now the cowmen galloped out on the plain, separating widely until they had practically surrounded the herd.
Now Ned could see thecowmen galloping in and gazing from their ponies.
The cowmen uttered a shout, for the process promised them much boisterous fun.
But, upon discovering the boys, the cowmen quickly checked their flow of language.
Then in the driving rain that soaked and chilled them the cowmen began their monotonous songs, interrupted now and then by a shout of command from some one in charge of a squad.
Bloody troubles between cowmen and nesters in Wyoming, the "Johnson County War.
Much of the "Johnson County War" between cowmenand thieving nesters.
Few full-length biographies of big operators among cowmen have been written.
Biographies of big cowmen and history based on genuine research.
As for the fracas at the pontoon, cowmen are touchy when it comes to a question of precedence, and it might well be that the inflammable Jim had brought the sudden storm down on his head.
Cowmen thought of the depleted herds when the riders should come in off the free ranges in the Spring should that moaning wind mean a real northwester.
He told me the cowmen had made a purse for my present needs.
Thus enlarging the scope of our operations ascowmen simply meant that greater responsibility would rest on the shoulders of the active partners and our trusted men.
Other ranges besides ours had suffered by fire and fence-cutters during the winter just passed, and I returned to find my fellow cowmen a unit for organization.
Quite a number of cowmen resided there, owning ranches in outlying and adjoining counties, among them being my acquaintance of the year before and present employer.
I reached the reservation with the lead herd, and was glad to learn from neighboring cowmen that a suggestion of mine, made the fall before, had taken root.
I have since known other cowmen who put their lands and cattle into companies, and after a few years' manipulation all they owned was some handsome certificates, possibly having drawn a dividend or two and held an honorary office.
Cattle were high enough as it was; in fact the market was top-heavy and wobbling on its feet, though the brightest of us cowmen naturally supposed that current values would always remain up in the pictures.
It was too early by nearly a month to begin active operations, and I contented myself about town, making the acquaintance of other cowmen and their foremen who expected to drive that year.
I had no opinions, except what other cowmen had told me, but was willing to take the chances where there was a reasonable hope of success.
Cowmen insisted on my selling their cattle, shippers consulted me, and I was constantly in demand with buyers, who wished my opinion on young steers before closing trades.
I was confining myself strictly to north Texas and Pan-Handle cattle, for through Montana cowmen I learned that there was an advantage, at maturity, in the northern-bred animal.
Cowmen reported en route with ten thousand beeves came in with one fifth the number, and sellers held the whip hand, the market actually opening at better figures than the summer before.
Three othercowmen were going to turn in a thousand head and furnish and mount a man each, there being no occasion to road-brand, as every one knew the ranch, brands which would go to make up the herd.
But it was questions like this that came before cowmen on the range, and it was the successful ones who solved them.
Men of the Black Rim hinted that young Tom rode with a long rope; meaning that his rope would reach the cattle of his neighbor cowmenif they came in his way.
Nor need a maverick worry very long because he belongs to no one, so long as cowmen ride the range.
Cowmen make poor housekeepers, but you must feel at home.
Moreover, Williams Cache, it was conceded, would in the end be worsted if the company and the cowmen together seriously undertook with men and unlimited money to clean it out.
Oh, youcowmen always rail at the settler," retorted the stranger; "you would kick if you were being hung.
Oh, these boys of mine are cowmen from who laid the rail.
A jolly party of cowmen left for Trail City that night.
Dell's gone up the creek with some cowmenfrom Texas," admitted Joel.
Now, that's the kind of cowmen I aim to make out of you boys, and to-morrow morning you must get these brands accurate.
The arrival of Dell and thecowmen prevented further converse between Priest and his protégé.
Evidently the embryo cowmen had taken heed and inquired into range customs, and were accordingly profuse with disclaimers of any wrong intent.
These cowmen of course took their character and their customs northward with them, and so they were discovered by those enthusiastic observers, newly arrived by rail, whom the cowmen were wont to call "pilgrims.
The old Wyoming deadline of the cowmenagainst intruding bands of Green River sheep made a considerable amount of history which was never recorded.
The cattle were not banished from the range, for each little farmer would probably have a few cows of his own; and in some fashion the great cowmen were managing to get in fee tracts of land sufficient for their purposes.
In the great valleys, such as the San Joaquin, the first interests were pastoral, and the cowmen found a vast realm which seemed to be theirs forever.
All over the range the feud between the sheepmen and the cowmen was bitter and implacable.
On their being discovered, however, there was a stir, and as Muskoka and the boy dismounted at the foot of a rough path and ascended there was a general movement of the miners and cowmen to meet them.
With a final whoop the cowmen thundered up to the station platform, and dismounted.
The cowmen crowded forward, and peering over Muskoka's board shoulders, studied Wilson from head to foot with speechless scorn.
It struck something on the wall which emitted a hollow thud, and glancing up the cowmen espied Wilson's new, brilliantly-banded hat.
Meekly Wilson obeyed, and the circle of cowmenroared at the result.
In front, to the right, was the bar, where some cowmen and prospectors were lined up before a counter upon which were bottles and glasses.
For the first time the girl gave way, lying prone, sobbing out her grief while the two cowmen looked aside.
The two cowmen leaped for their seats, Sandy temporarily sheathing one gun.
One of the tasks, therefore, of the cowmen of Bowman's ranch was to guard against aboriginal thieves.
That this peculiar feature of ranch life sometimes assumed grave phases was proved by several narrations made by the cowmen to the boys on their first night at the ranch.
It was made wholly of wood, with only a single door at the front, where was a shaded porch, provided with seats, most of which were occupied at times by the cowmen through the day and late into the night.
The other cowmenwould have been glad to join in the hunt, but they could not be spared from duty.
The cowmen whose duty it was to look after the large herd browsing over the thousands of acres composing Bowman's ranch had two annoyances to guard against.
There have been fierce collisions of late years between the cowmen and rustlers of the West, and at one time there was considerable bloodshed, but the quarrel seems to have been adjusted.
The wind blew in gusts, much the same as on the previous evening, and the temperature fell until, had the cowmen been less accustomed to exposure, they would have suffered more than their animals.
A shrill yell from the cowmen told him they would be upon him in a moment.
What did you tell us the cowmen were after us for?
Sending us out to the foothills, telling us the cowmen were attacking us.
With a yell of triumph the forces under Mr. Simms rode right over the scurrying sheep in their effort to drive the cowmen off.
The conversation came to a sudden pause as the boys rode up, the cowmen eyeing the newcomers almost suspiciously, Tad thought.
He don't approve of the hatred that the cowmen generally have for the sheep business.
The rest of you stick by the camp until you know that the cowmen are here; then sail in.
One of the cowmen who had entered the store, overhearing this, went outside and informed his companions.
He nickered plaintively, and rolled his terror-stricken eyes toward the cowmen in wild appeal.
His brother cowmen would have laughed at these "tender ministrations," and Collie himself smiled as he recalled Billy Dime's parting directions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
