The muleteers and herdersshould be mounted upon well-trained horses, and be careful to keep the animals of the caravan from wandering or scattering along the road.
The alarm occurred while the herders were walking among the animals, and without any perceptible cause.
These herders of cattle, working sometimes for weeks at a stretch without getting to the ranch house, and seeing only each other's faces, certainly get lonely.
He was about to ride faster and overtake one of the other herders and ask, when the thunder seemed to split the firmament right over the valley.
About dawn the next morning, all the animals of the volunteers were captured by a band of Indians, while the herders were conducting them to the river-bottom to graze.
At one time, two herders who were with their animals within fifty yards of the fort, going out to the grazing ground, were killed and every hoof of stock run off.
The cattle, as wild as those from the Texas prairies, were driven by his herders into an immense enclosed field, and there turned loose to be slaughtered by the savages.
Now, as with one ear he listened to Alan's account of the hold-up, with his subconscious mind he was with the sheep-herders who were driving the flock back into the pasture.
There had been threats against his life, and one of his herders had been wounded.
You're queen of the range to-night, and we're your herders or your punchers, whichever you want to call us.
The agility, nerve, and prowess of the ranch workmen, the herders or gauchos, were noteworthy.
Here, one morning about sunrise, as the herders were bringing in the stock, five Indians rushed in and tried to stampede the animals, but the herders happened to see them in time to give the alarm.
As soon as all the herders had drank plenty of warm coffee, all mounted their horses, and the work of rousing the cattle began.
Jim Hutchins's herders must have sneaked back over by Iron Mountain," suggested Fletcher.
The herders grinned, as the rangers came in sight.
By the time he and his herders should be released, the whole eighty-mile width of the Sierras would lie between him and his flocks.
The two herders followed after, leaning on their long staffs.
They tell me to put sheep and herders off the Reserve without using unnecessary force; but there ain't nothing said about putting them off in the same place!
I don't wonder sheep herders go dotty," said he aloud.
The cowboys and sheep-herders are always coming into the town, and probably they all knew me by sight, while I didn't know them one from another.
From the herdersthey learned that the cattle belonged to the "Lazy J" ranch.
The herders informed the Overlanders that the ranch-house was about five miles due east of there, and that the boss would be glad to see them.
It so chanced that early in the morning as the herders drove the cattle to the waters of Sebus to drink, that the robbers from the mountains had congregated there to scatter the herds.
Ammon called cheerily to the herders to encircle the cattle and guard the outskirts in case they again turned that way.
Herders get tired of it sometimes, but I never do.
Some of the herders have gone already, as you know; the rest will be off to-morrow.
At the far end of the troughs still other herders helped the bedraggled creatures out onto a draining platform where they dripped for a time and were afterward driven back into their pens.
Some day the survey will have all the water-holes catalogued along with the poisoned herbage, and will then be able to direct herders to the best grazing grounds.
And mind what I'm telling you--you will see more things that the government is doing for the herders when you get higher up.
Later, however, he had found the herders kindly despite their taciturn manner.
I should think the herders would like to see people when they are alone so much.
Ross has nipped Joe Gregg and one of his herdersfor killing mountain-sheep.
It did not matter to him that these herders were poor Basques; it was the utter, horrifying, destructive disregard of law which raised such tumult in his blood.
Notwithstanding all the shouting of herders and the beating to death of sheep, no hostile shot has ever been fired within the bounds of a National Forest.
For a long time the ranger sat on his horse, peering down into those ashes until at last it became evident to his eyes that at least two sheep-herders had been sacrificed on the cattle-man's altar of hate and greed.
Who would kill these poor sheep-herders but cattle-men warring for the grass on which we stand?
Some fifty yards away stood a thatched hut that served as kitchen, and on its floor the cattle herders used to sleep upon their horse-gear with their feet towards the fire.
The herders nodded on their horses, who for their part hung down their heads, and now and then shifted their quarters so as to bring their heads into the shade.
So Rachel was watering her flocks when the Midianitish herders drove her from the spring; and you see the same rivalry for possession of the waterhole in our own desert country as ancient record tells of that other storied land.
At Santa Clara, soldiers, herders and colonists were slain on the field as they worked.
We traveled for miles on what was then called Maxwell's Ranch, where great herds of sheep, cattle and horses were to be seen, with an adobe house here and there, where herders lived.
They were allowed to graze over a piece of open range where the herders could watch them and see that none of them escaped.
The next day this bunch was called the "day herd" and three herders looked after them all day long.
His father and his uncle were among the best herders in the state, and from a child he had been used to the rough life of a sheep camp.
We got into the service in them good old days when it was a case of ability to ride a pitchin' bronc, rope a maverick, chase sheep herders off the earth, shoot the eyes out of a wildcat at forty yards an' all them things.
Had they all followed as did the boy we would have captured every horse and probably have got the herders as well.
Taking in the situation at a glance, I put spurs to my horse, and calling to the men to come on, made a dash to cut them off from the canyon down which the herders were endeavoring to force them.
The stock had all been turned loose in the care of herders who remained with them to keep them from straying off, and who would bring them in when they were required.
At the outset of the journey, the Mexican herders were started off with a supply of bacon and coffee, besides having burros laden with bedding and other utensils.
Them herders packin' guns looks to me like they're goin' to make trouble if they kin," gloomed Happy Jack.
When the last sheep had passed, blatting discordantly, down the bluff, Weary halted the sweating herdersfor a parting admonition.
The herders can wait--and, anyway, I've kinda got an idea Andy wants to hand out his own brand of poison to that bunch.
Four herders moved slowly upon the outskirts, and the dogs were little, scurrying, black dots which stopped occasionally to wait thankfully until the master-minds again urged them to endeavor.
Weary rode off to hurry the herders on the far side of the band.
The herders grinned and drew together as against a common enemy--or as with a new joke to be discussed among themselves.
The herders had drawn together, and were looking on from a distance, and the four dogs were yelping uneasily over their enforced inaction.
The herders watched them openly and with the manner of men who are expecting the worst to happen.
I'll bet, by golly, he paid then herders to tie him up like that.
This morning theherders were not quite so passive.
The Turk, however, has so many herders with one flock that they usually discover the kids before the flock has strayed.
The testicles are slippery and some herders prefer to use the teeth instead of the fingers to extract the testicles.
What he got was an empty stretch of moonlit plain to the south, from a pickup on one of the steel towers the veldbeest herders used.
The last time had been a couple of woods tramps, out-of-work veldbeest herders from the south, who had heard about the little bag he carried around his neck.
So the three herders got together on a knoll from which a good view of the country could be had, and sat there watching the stock as it fed.
A little later these representatives would be relieved by the night herders who now, with several herds to watch instead of one as the night before, would ride about and keep apart the different bunches.
The bullocks and goats and sheep plodded on before their noisy herders and scarcely quickened their pace at thrust of goad or snap of whip.
Several herderssat on their ponies in and about the herd, while others lounged lazily on the ground under the shade of neighboring trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
