An' you know how all ranchers say they rustled a little on the start.
On the other hand, the Smith gang from Elgeria rode to and fro, like ranchers searching for lost horses.
His specialty got to be yearlings, an' the ranchersall over rose up in arms against him.
Then I borrowed a good deal from those men I gambled with, but mostly from ranchers who knew my father would be responsible.
Jernyngham and his daughter were not the kind of people the somewhat primitive prairie ranchers would welcome; their request for accommodation was more likely to cause astonishment and alarm.
Thin duck overalls are commonly worn by ranchers and working people, in place of heavier clothing, during the hot weather.
She had generally found the western ranchers blunt.
The sheriff brought reinforcements up, but with no other effect than to rouse the discontent of the ranchersat their utter failure.
It was about '85 that Forks Settlement enjoyed the height of its prosperity--a prosperity based on the supply of dry-goods and machinery to a widely scattered and sparse population of small ranchers and farmers.
Bearded rancherslaughed in scorn, and mild-eyed Mexicans spoke even more softly.
Kitchen's barn was headquarters for the small ranchers from the north and for the Falling Wall men, and McAlpin soon had a trade seeking Belle's place.
Small ranchers along the creek might have wakened at the smart clatter of so many horses, but men to and from the Fort traveled late at times and made even more noise.
Waynefleet appeared to be a politician, and he criticized the Government, which, in his opinion, was neglecting the Bush-ranchers shamefully.
Those ranchers he has been trying to freeze off their holding have no use for him.
Some of those ranchers must know a good deal more about work of the kind you are doing than you do, and, if you had explained it all to them, they would have released you.
Nasmyth glanced at the speaker in amused astonishment, for the Bush-ranchers of the Pacific slope are not, as a rule, particular.
He fancied that he knew the establishment in Victoria to which Waynefleet referred, but it was not one which he had ever visited, or which the smaller Bush-ranchers usually frequented.
Few of the small ranchers can feed their stock entirely on their little patches of cleared land, and it is not an unusual thing for most of the herd to run almost wild in the Bush.
Seems to me quite likely one of those Bush-ranchers would take you in a while, even if he didn't exactly want a hired man; but they don't do that kind of thing in the city.
Sneakish coyotes prowl about these mountains, from whence they pay neighborly visits to the chicken-roosts of the ranchers in the Truckee meadows near by.
Polly Brewster, a girl just past fourteen, was a true type of the honest, ambitious ranchers of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
Maybe they are not our company, at all, but some ranchers riding that way," suggested Eleanor, fearfully.
Only the miners at Oak Creek wore such spiked heels, the ranchers and other citizens being satisfied with heavy leather soles.
Eleanor and Polly stood watching the crowds of incoming ranchers drive by, all on the lookout for a good camping-site.
Ranchers seldom ride that trail, and never on Sundays.
Most of his posses were recruited from among the small ranchers and cow boys of the lower Pecos.
Johnson, Ham Mills, Johnnie Hurley, Frank Baker, severalranchers still living in that country, and two or three Mexicans.
Due before this, indeed, for Sobrante ranchers are ever keen for their post stuff.
The idee of a woman screeching her lungs out afore all the ranchers in Southern Californy!
The coyote population in Harding County and adjacent areas is low owing to an active predator control program that is supported by local ranchers and by state and federal agencies.
There is a continuing demand from sheep ranchers in the county that foxes be controlled, yet this species seems to maintain considerably higher populations than does the coyote.
Sheridan City for the past eight years has had a cooeperative store in which ranchers and farmers from nearby communities have most of the shares.
The hard times have made ranchers and farmers do more serious thinking about taxes, farm conditions, and the marketing of farm products than they have ever done before.
The boy ranchers trail the savages into the mountains and eventually effect the rescue.
There are three large general stores, supplied with heavy stocks of goods; from this, as a distributing center, the stockmen and ranchers for fifty miles and more in every direction fetch the necessaries of life.
The three-year-old steers fetch about fifteen or seventeen dollars a head; no wonder the ranchers prosper, considering that the cost from calfhood was only that of herding.
Each of the neighboring ranchers who would benefit by the undertaking had promised a pro-rata payment, and the Crown authorities had conditionally granted to Savine a percentage of all the unoccupied land he could reclaim.
After several of the ranchers from the lower valley had spoken the official said: "I hardly think you have cited sufficient to convince an unprejudiced person that the works are a public danger.
Black Christy got upon his feet again and departed into the bush, where he wandered for several weeks, building fences and splitting shingles for the ranchers in return for food and shelter, until he found work and wages at a saw-mill.
At last the day on which Thurston's work was to be practically tested arrived, and most of the ranchers drove over to witness what they regarded as a reckless experiment.
II Tall Ed had drifted into Sulphur from the Southwest some six months before, and although fairly well known among the ranchers on the Wire Grass, was not a familiar figure in town.
He was strengthened in this determination by the reports which came to him from the ranchers he met.
And this question extended to the neighbors, to the awkward ranchers who came stiffly and with a sort of awe into his room to "pass a good word," as they said.
All ranchers can tell of the depredations of these animals.
Ranchers and stockmen had usurped their country, spoiled the fishing, and driven off the game.
From time to time ranchersor sheep herders reported that their flocks had been molested, that signs of Indians had been found or that arrowheads were discovered in their sheep.
By ranchers covetous of the range; that was absolutely certain.
As it is, I'm commissioned to make it hot for the ranchers that killed those dagoes, and I'm going to do it.
The group of ranchers dismounted, and followed the sheriff over to the grewsome spot; but Redfield stayed with the ranger.
Virginia winced a little at this, for it flashed over her that all the women with whom she had grown up spoke very much in this fashion--using breeding terms almost as freely as the ranchers themselves.
Nothing that had occurred in the Valley for years had stirred the ranchers so deeply.
The ranchers who had come from distant valleys began to scatter toward the Pass.
They were said to be after horse-thieves, but it became noticeable that their activities seemed to be directed mainly against the small ranchers on the edge of the Bad Lands.
The corrals at the stores were open to the ranchers and often they were filled with pack animals.
When the government enlarged the Fort Bayard Reservation all the watershed was included and ranchers had to relinquish their water rights and sell.
When other ranchers won wealth by raising stock, he hardly held his own against disease, dishonest agents, and unfortunate choice of markets.
MacGonigal had, in fact, recognized Willard the instant he swung into view, because none of the ranchers rode that way nowadays, a more circuitous but safer trail having been cut to avoid the rails.
As the ranchers put it, in the figurative language of their calling, "the hull blame state was burnt to a cinder.
Further to the south were the ranch buildings, corrals, the cook house and a log cabin, outside of which hung any number of bridles and saddles, some of which the ranchers were mending and polishing when Stalling's men arrived on the scene.
We ranchers learn to take a man for what he is worth, not for what he has on.
Costs quite a pile to start with, and the ranchersfarther west certainly have their troubles.
Some of you ranchers run stock outside the fences, and I guess one could still find a lonely trail to the American border.
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