A bunch of mavericks without an owner was likely to get snapped up quick in those parts—John Upton might turn out to be the lucky man, but not if I.
My deputies reported to me that on the last round-up calves were found bearing a different iron from their mothers and that mavericks were branded on sight, anywhere on the open range.
Prisoners were the fruits of his profession, like game to a hunter or mavericks to a cowman, and he pulled the gun out of Pecos's holster and threw loose the tangled ropes with the calm joy of a man who has made a killing.
In the intermediate levels stray mavericks of cloud were pivoting about like prairie cattle milling in a blizzard.
On the other hand, he would see to it that they did not catch him branding maverickson his own range.
Counting both bunches, the strays numbered nearly a thousand head, and cattle bearing no tally-mark fully as many more, while the remainder were mavericks and would have paid the expenses of the outfit for the past four months.
But the abundance of mavericks and wild cattle was so tempting that we had three hundred under herd when the first cow-hunting outfits arrived.
But when other outfits came up or down the valley of the Clear Fork we joined forces with them, tendering our corrals for branding purposes, our rake-off being the mavericks and eligible strays.
Fine weather favored us and we held the mavericks under herd until late in December.
Later such as were not shipped away, and many of the calves and mavericks would be returned to fatten up and grow in readiness for the spring tallying.
He had had some practice, as many of the mavericks found had calves by their side, and these as well as the cows had been branded with the [brand circle triangle].
What in the name of lost mavericksare you doing here--collecting?
Mavericks are at present the best for our purpose.
Oh joy, theMavericks had risen on the eve of battle!
The Maverickswere generally of Horse Egan's opinion.
Yes, theMavericks had fraternized with the native troops.
The mutiny had broken out and the barracks of the Mavericks were one white-washed pandemonium.
Dan lifted them tenderly and unrolled in the light of the candles the record of the Mavericks - tattered, worn, and hacked.
Therefore the Mavericks lay down in open order on the brow of a hill to watch the play till their call should come.
At even the Mavericksmight have been mistaken for mutineers by one so unversed in their natures as Mulcahy.
I never was in the old country, but young mavericks aren't the only stock to go missing in Alberta, which isn't a long way off.
As I guess you have heard, they have had trouble of this kind in Alberta for a while; and most every time the boys were able to send back any American mavericks and beef-cattle that were run into Canada.
Their advice, I suppose, was that you cast in your fortunes with them, and take up the business of branding mavericks and altering other brands.
As long as the mavericks were not openly branded there was no means of stopping them.
The mavericks are allowed to go to the outfit with whose cattle they have run, and that outfit puts its own brand on them.
They were driving a lot of mavericks toward their ranch down the river, when Budd Hankinson saw a steer among them with our brand.
At the time the Association was formed the rustlers were few in number, and confined their acts to branding the mavericks or unbranded yearlings with their own brands.
It's the hawss Mr. Larrabie Keller mavericks around on, durn his forsaken hide!
According to the Law of the Herds, as it is held in the southwest, each cattleman is entitled to whatever mavericks he finds on his own range, and none may say him nay.
The mavericks were an unfailing source of quarrels.
Never killed other people's beef and didn't take mavericks till they was plum weaned from the cows.
I told them that I thought it was a bad practice to hunt mavericks all the time, but whenever a maverick came around hunting me up, I generally built a fire and put a branding iron in to heat.
Anybody who finds it can brand it and claim it as his, though; in some places all themavericks are bunched together and divided.
It was hinted that he branded more mavericks than were rightfully his, and on several occasions cattle with "blurred brands" had been found on his ranch.
We'll think up some way to get even with these grain-fed mavericks before very long," comforted Jess.
Fast as the mavericks were urged on, they could not make the same speed over the rough ground that the ponies of their tormentors achieved.
To the south of the feeding bunch of maverickshe had deployed his cow-punchers under his own leadership.
Already the drive had begun, and the mavericks were trotting off before the onrush of a dozen or more dark figures garbed like Indians.
There were no mavericks in the Bad Lands Cowboy articles.
VERY early in the morning the white tents came down and disappeared as the Mavericks took a side road to Umballa.
Yes, theMavericks had fraternised with the native troops.
He allows you'll get it ag'in an' a band ofmavericks with it.
I reckons, Bill, me an' you could keep ahead of them mavericks a year if we-alls feels like it.
The devil then said that throughout the land He'd managed to keep up the devil's own brand, And all would be mavericks unless they bore The marks of scratches and bites and thorns by the score.
Snow-shoe" Brown said she was a maverick and unblushingly declared that he claimed all mavericks that he had had his rope on; therefore "Esther Tisdale" belonged to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mavericks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
