This kind of sport had not been bargained for; a strict adherence to the trail, with diligence, would enable us to reach the ranche in time for a lunch and the buckboard "going down.
Then as Curly and I sat on a rock together listening, I heard a bear cough because his nose got dusty, grubbing for ants; a coyote was singing the hunger-song, and miles away to the east a ranche dog answered him.
For years at Holy Cross ranche he was in open league with this gang of robbers who have captured me.
I ride the range for thy dear sake, To earn thee gold, Senorita, Lolita; And steal the gringo's cows to make A ranche to hold Lolita!
I don't know the whereabouts of this house, but it's a large ranche building of logs in the middle of pine woods.
Thanks to the patrone, I've saved ponies and cattle enough to stock my little ranche yonder.
Lie low," she said; "we're hidden here from the ranche until we can run some more.
Only the chairman was in the saddle, he being old Mutiny Robertson, who wanted to buy my ranche and not to burn it.
At the month's end I quit from this outfit, and I'm taking up a ranche five miles on the far side of Grave City.
They promise then to deliver me at the nearest ranche or farm on or before 1st November.
In those days Balshannon took advice from Bryant, our nearest neighbour, whose ranche was only one day's ride from Holy Cross.
The departing Jack delivered me another lecture on the uses of a mild and amiable but fighting bull on a ranche where a man was likely to be worried to death by a lady who had no notion of how much a man ought to do in a day.
When on my friend Jones's ranche in 1884 I sometimes went wild turkey hunting or potting; we used to choose a moonlight night and lie under the trees, where they roosted, and shoot them on the branches.
It was all they could do to pack the birds on their ponies, and they were compelled to walk them all the way to the ranche to keep the birds from falling off.
He gave his wife some advice about the boys and their mission, then he and the stranger mounted their animals and loped off at a good gait for the ranche of old Mr. Tucker, three miles away.
The shrill whistle of the locomotive may be heard at the ranche as the palace trains with their load of living freight dash along the bank of the Smoky Hill, toward the Rocky Mountains.
The night of the third day after the runner had come to tell Joe to get ready, another one came to the ranche and said that White Wolf and the warriors would start in the morning.
So the children of Errolstrath Ranche had a good time--a much better time than generally falls to the lot of those families in only moderate circumstances, as were the Thompsons.
Then they would go to bed, as it was very late for the ranche folks to be up.
The boys hunted for her in all imaginable places on theranche where they thought she might possibly be, but could not find her.
Joe had really handled a gun long before he left Vermont, but the superior chance for practice out on the ranche soon made him a magnificent shot; consequently the table at the ranche was never without game if the family desired it.
In 1856, I tried to ranche it in the central portion of Washington Territory.
The girls arrived safely at theranche with their charge, and Joe being begged to make a cage, set about it at once, and had it ready in less than an hour.
The little party from the ranche arrived at the mouth of the Oxhide before the contingent from Fort Harker.
Before they had resided on the ranche a year, the boys and girls had become possessed of a variety of pets.
Kit Carson remained through the following summer months at his ranche at Rayado, busying himself in efforts to improve his house and lands.
At the first ranche they came to, they halted and made a rest of two or three days, while Kit employed himself in purchasing supplies, in which he succeeded beyond even his expectations.
Maxwell proposed to Kit Carson to join him in the enterprise of building a ranche on the site which he had selected.
There were five or six travellers in theranche when our party arrived, all of whom were awaiting the preparation of supper.
His ranchewas a mere hovel, built of sun-dried bricks, and he dealt more in drinks than in edibles.
The incident in the ranche was quickly banished, and each traveller committed himself silently to the full enjoyment of the beauties around him--beauties which appeared less like reality than a vision of the night.
The country became more and more undulating and broken as they advanced, and beyond the secondranche assumed the appearance of a hill country.
George Ackerman was glad to get back to his ranche again.
They have often camped on my ranche when they came down here buffalo-hunting.
They were employed on this ranche before I was born, and have finally come to think that they have more rights here than I have.
Were there not exciting times in the ranchethat night?
I was ordered to go to Holmes's ranche with Mr. Wentworth, but I wasn't told to follow up and collect his cattle if they were stampeded.
They halted on the top of every ridge to survey the country before them, and called at every ranche that lay along their route; but nothing was to be seen or heard of Bristow and his party.
He owns a big cattle-ranche a few miles from here, and has an income of about forty thousand dollars a year.
The honest fellows who had so long been employed on the ranche that they began to look upon themselves as members of the Ackerman family could not bear the thought of parting from him, and Zeke especially felt very gloomy over it.
They fled in hot haste, making their escape by the roof, by doors whose existence George never dreamed of, and by squeezing themselves through the narrow openings that served the ranche in the place of windows.
No visitor at the Ackerman ranche was ever treated so shamefully before, and I tell you I don't want the thing repeated.
So the cameras were moved on to the front of a ranche house now in use for the drama, and the spur lessons continued.
Later, when the band returned to the ranche with their booty, he saw the dissolute brother, after the treasure was divided, winning it back to the family coffers with his dice.
You have a good home on the ranche for her, but she won't stay put.
You've come out here to work on a ranche in the great open spaces, and these cowboys all love you and come to town with you every time, and they'll stand by you when the detective from New York gets here.
Here Mr. Moody died; but his widow with her large family successfully maintained her cattle and sheep ranche till a rich gold mine was discovered upon her land.
The day before I was to start back home it was arranged that I should return to Jim Beckwith's ranche and keep the Colonel posted by letter in regard to the snow in the mountains, and when he would be able to cross.
The first night we camped at the head of Eagle Valley, and from there to Jim Beckwith's ranche it was sixty miles.
They had settled on a ranche just below Laithrop's place and near the Hot Springs.
We got together a band from the ranche we were working on and went after them, and we had some pretty tough fighting before we got through.
The cattle of each ranche were as far as possible kept in that portion of the territory nearest their own stations, but during the winter they scattered to great distances in search of better grazing ground or shelter.
A strong cordon of sentries was posted that night, but there were no signs of Indians, and the next day the party reached one of the ranche stations.
I was working in the O triangle ranche two years ago; their station ain't above a hundred and fifty miles from where we are.
A cow-boy belonging to a neutral ranchewas to act as starter.
Of course the calves belonged to one or other of the ranches round, and as each ranche sends out a number of outfits to the round-up in proportion to the numbers of its cattle, the present rule is fair enough.
Fortunately, the busy season was almost over when they left, and they knew that there were enough hands on the ranche to look after the cattle during their absence.
They know their value; and a really good man knows, and this was more especially the case at that time, that he has but to ride to the next ranche to get employment.
We have been driving in the horses from the ranche for the last three days, and to-morrow we are going to begin breaking them.
The ranche was always full of people coming and going, so there was no lack of society or news.
At this day, the Valley Ranche is inhabited by the solitary woman, who, with her Indian servant, lives alone in the old house.
Every thing at the ranche went on quietly enough, and a stranger happening there might have believed it an orderly and well regulated family as any that could be found in the State.
That woman, Laurence, is the female I saw in California upon the night when I so narrowly escaped from the Valley Ranche with my life.
It was theranche to which she had directed the party who came with that wounded man to ask shelter of her.
The ranche had its full share of visitors; food and drink were bountifully provided.
The ranche was desolate--an old Indian woman, who remained in the kitchen, received them with more of terror than welcome.
I go to my ranche to-morrow, but come back before many sunsets, and if you want me again, Padre, you know where to find me.
My ranche is just below the mission San Jose, and I have large flocks of sheep and cattle.
Before twenty-four hours there would hardly be a farmstead or ranche in Saskatchewan that would not be pillaged and burnt to the ground.
If we have luck we'll be back at theranche before noon to-morrer.
He advised Douglas to get back to the ranche by a little-used circuitous trail, as now it was pretty certain that the whole township was aroused, and the rebels would be out scouring the countryside for them in another hour or less.
He told me to go with her, and, when I had found you, to return to where we had left the sleighs, and make back for the ranche by the old trail as quickly as possible.
What did you bring him into the ranche for, chief?
We built a rancheon the banks of the former stream, in a lonely spot, and only went to town to sell game and procure ammunition and other stores.
I buried him under the hearthstone, and fired the ranche over his head, determined that no one should dwell in the house where his blood had mingled with the murderers'.
Vanhomrigh was on his promotion; he had washed and was now comparatively clean; a few more months of straight conduct would see him on his way to a cattle ranche in Alberta.
I forget about the Duke and Duchess, but a lover was to be found on the ranche for Fanny Starlight; and Red Indians were to carry off Webb, who was to be rescued by the Cowboy King; and so on.
He purchased a ranche across the bay from the city of San Francisco, and for a short time became interested in the, to him, novel duties of a farmer.
The ranche was neglected for other objects affording more excitement and adventure; but by the year 1860 this existence had lost many of its charms, and Hooker again found the "horrors of peace" upon him.
The barking of the dogs about that man's ranchewas the first thing that checked his speed.
Look here, Padrona, I am the same man who came ashore one evening and sat down in the thatched ranche you lived in at that time on the other side of the town and told you all about himself.
Joses and Bart started as soon as it was sufficiently light, rifle in hand, to try and make out their whereabouts, for they were now beyond the region familiar to both in their long rides from ranche to ranche in quest of cattle.
He went out and told his men, who were hanging about the old ranche although there was no work for them to do.
I was always proud of the way in which my ranche was protected and my cattle cared for.
There is scarce a Canadian ranche hand but owns a pony of bronco breed, scarce an Australian station hand of any decent calibre but owns or can procure a tough and serviceable semi-'brumbie' mount.
Each ranche was formed of a group of 10 to 20 huts, controlled by the cacique.
After the battle, Datto Djimbangan, Ali's brother, was taken unawares at his ranche by a detachment of American troops.
With their consent a cattle-ranche was established there; subsequently, a building was erected, and the place was in time known as the Estancia de Jalajala.
In March, 1887, the cacique of the Simonor ranche (Bongao Is.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranche" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
