This is Pratt Sanderson, from Amarillo," the daughter of the ranchman said first of all.
But the old ranchman considered it his bounden duty to keep the treasure in his own hands until his partner came to divide it; and he would be stubborn about any change in this plan.
No more than Pratt Sanderson, for instance, did she know just how the old ranchman had become possessed of the great store of Indian and Spanish ornaments, or of the old Spanish chest.
The old ranchman was staring at the unfolded sheet with fixed attention.
The old ranchman shot a ray of his electric torch through the opening; but the light revealed nothing.
When the kindly old ranchman considered her a wall-flower and came and begged her to "give him a whirl," Sue had to break through her "icy reserve.
Excitement is often a strong mental corrective; and with his mind upon the dearest possession of his old age, the ranchman forgot all bodily ills.
Then Frances grew into his heart and life, and although the old wound opened as the ranchman saw his daughter expand, her love and companionship was like a healing balm poured into his sore heart.
Of course, the old ranchman could not go; but Frances and Sam were at Cottonwood Bottom soon after sunrise, waiting for the party from Mr. Bill Edwards' ranch.
The old ranchman furnished the former, of course; but nobody but Frances, Pratt thought, could have arranged the furnishings and adornments of the house.
This turning up of Jonas Lonergan meant the parting with a portion of the mysterious wealth that the oldranchman kept hidden in the Spanish chest--wealth that he might easily keep if he would.
Perhaps Pete even hoped that the old ranchman would agree immediately to the terms of ransom set forth in the note Ratty had taken to the Bar-T.
The old ranchman worked up the idea with Mrs. Edwards before Frances knew anything about it.
Now the girl had to be much more than the intermediary between the old ranchman and his employees.
Here comes Sam, Frances," the ranchman said, in a low voice.
Early one bright November morning I started down there on foot to make arrangements with a ranchman to look after them.
At Marysville I traded it off to a ranchman for a yoke of oxen and had the load distributed on the other wagons so that again we had as many drivers as teams.
He decided that these two lost ones had been taken by some ranchmanor passing train.
Not a ranchman up and down the Little Missouri lost less than half his herd.
Roosevelt, meanwhile, was proving himself as capable as a ranchman as he was courageous as an investor.
There he secured supplies and a prairie-schooner, hiring the ranchman himself, a rugged old plainsman, to drive it to the camp by the ice-bound river.
Each ranchman "claimed" a certain range, but no mark showed the boundaries of that range and no fence held the cattle and horses within it.
No ranchman by himself, or with the aid only of his own employees, would ever have been able to collect his widely scattered property.
Montana had such an organization in the Montana Live Stock Association and more than one ranchman with large interests in the valley of the Little Missouri had appealed to that body for help.
It was the rule of the cattlemen that a "maverick" belonged to the ranchman on whose range it was found.
If one man over-stocked his range, it was not only his cattle which suffered, but in an equal measure the cattle of every other ranchman along the river.
All day Orlando wondered when he should see that face again; all day the eyes of Louise pleaded for another look at the ranchman with the dress of a dandy, the laugh of a child, and the face of an Apollo--or so it seemed to her.
Well, in the same way, Giggles doesn't really look like a ranchman; but he's every bit as good a ranchman as you are a Christian and a Methodist!
On the rocky creek road the ranchman and his daughter Mary were driving up among the trees on their way to the cabin, a lantern swinging from the end of the wagon tongue, the horses straining against the grade.
Of Sorenson nothing had been spoken, though a repressed curiosity on the part of the ranchman and his daughter had been evident from the instant of Weir's and Janet's return.
Her deliberateness nearly drove theranchman to distraction.
Dressed in the simple garb of civilization he had little about him, beyond the intense sunburn of his face, to remind one of the urgent young ranchman who had first planned the combination which was to develop into the famous Obar Ranch.
The ranchman was no match for the keen mind of his employer.
He was an old type of ranchman whose waking hours were devoted to a physical labor which left no room for anything else.
It had cost one hundred and thirty dollars, an unthinkable price it had seemed, but dismissed as something too paltry to be considered by the open-handed ranchman whom she claimed as father.
Just below Ouray, last year, a ranchman raised seven thousand quarts of strawberries for market.
Every sort of grain is raised, and the yield to an acre is large, as must always be the case where the soil is rich, the weather uniform, and the ranchman able to control his water-supply and apply it as he sees need.
She urged her horse into a lope, and reached Thompson's just as the ranchman and his two hands were starting for the barn.
She whirled into Thompson's lane and, in the dooryard, threw herself from her horse almost into the arms of the big ranchman who stared at her in surprise.
The boys agreed to land the ranchmanand his son as soon as the fog cleared off, which, as the captain had prophesied, it did in about an hour's time.
Oh, it's a book I sent for to New York," said the ranchman after he had given the boy ten cents, and had opened the package.
I'll go for Uncle Fred," and he hurried back where he had left the ranchman and Captain Roy.
Meanwhile Uncle Fred and Daddy Bunker had been kept busy; theranchman attending to his business matters, and talking with engineers about his mysterious spring, and Mr. Bunker working at his real estate affairs.
Yes, a few were driven off, as almost always happens when the spring goes dry," said the ranchman in answer to Captain Roy's question.
The six little Bunkers gathered about his chair, and, laying aside the book that the special delivery messenger had brought, the ranchman told the children some wonderful stories.
Many of these claimants were impostors, and the ranchman referred them to the courts which, under the circumstances, could do very little toward straightening out the tangle of ownership.
The quality of the hospitality of the ranchman and his wife was not strained.
Never mind denying it," said the ranchman sternly.
They were all eager to get the young Mexican to Mr. Hammond and see what the shrewd old ranchman could make out of him.
The ranchman betrayed considerable interest in the matter.
In a minute the ranchman and the half-breed were racing down the slope, their ponies on the jump, the half of the steer jumping behind them.
And that crazy feller that's been around yere for some months," the ranchman said.
The ranchman might have laid violent hands upon Jib Pottoway, only there was so much to do.
The sound of galloping hoofs had shut the ranchman up.
The ranchman spoke in a tone that was not to be gainsaid--it amounted to a command.
By the time the ranchman had finished the letter the sun was nearing the mountain crest and the boys' appetites assured them it was time to eat.
He was introduced, and the warm grasp of the hand that John got from the old ranchman won him at once.
Before long the ranchman called them in, and they enjoyed a supper the like of which had not fallen to their lot since they left the mine.
At its conclusion the ranchman would know whether the previous winter's storms and cold had allowed him any increase or not.
You struck a poor sample," the ranchman responded.
It seemed the pleasing ranchman from Chicago was one of a band of cattle thieves.
Harry gave glowing accounts of a new customer--a ranchman from Chicago, who had taken up an abandoned homestead.
We felt sorry for the ranchman who probably lost his stock of pastry on his way home, but our sorrow did not seriously affect our appetites.
The ranchman who expressed a desire to put a hole through us for scaring his horses on our way down to the Springs, now recognized and waved his hand to us as we returned.
I am sorry to say the ranchman by birth is not an American, but an Englishman.
I had a letter to post at Paxton, but forgot it; some miles beyond, a ranchman whom we met said I would find a post-office at Korty, five miles further on.
Soon a ranchman arrived leading his horse, and said he had almost lost his steed while fording the river and narrowly escaped drowning.
I came to the conclusion the ranchmanhad said twenty-five miles instead of five.
Then the ranchman purchased a photo, and we two grown-up school boys drove back to town, in time to escape a thunder shower.
A ranchman rode up and said we would find plenty of water yonder at the well, the only water for many miles around; then he rode away.
Tim warmed up the Good News and motioned for the ranchman and Curly to climb into the forward cockpit.
Supported by the ranchman on one side and the field manager on the other, Tim made his way to the administration building.
This had been written with a coarse blue pencil, evidently picked up in the stable or workroom; and to the reporter's inquiries, put to the first ranchman he met, there seemed no satisfactory answer.
Antonio caught at the straw the ranchman seemed to extend, and feebly pointed to the wound in his back.
Success soon crowned his efforts since, fortunately, the ranchman was merely stunned, not killed, by the ugly fall he had taken when his horse so suddenly pitched forward and tossed him overhead against the pile of rocks.
With this full consciousness came to the injured ranchman and he tried to rise, crying in his own distress: "That's Comanche!
It was only upon such errands of mercy that the mistress ever left her home, and there was not a ranchman in her employ but esteemed it an honor to drive for her whither she would.
And Janet came quickly, like her husband cordial and sympathetic, and led the deeply moved frontiersman into her own kitchen, where no uninvited ranchman dared intrude, and there served him well with good things, including the haggis.
When a ranchman gave us his word to deliver us as good or better beeves than the spring before, there was no occasion to question his ability, and the cattle never deceived.
The little ranchman who bought five hundred steers in the fall of 1869 was in the market the present summer for a thousand head.
Every yoke of oxen was sold within a week, one ranchman took all the cows, an army contractor took one thousand of the largest beeves, feeders from Iowa took the younger steers, and within six weeks after arriving I did not have a hoof left.
It was then too late in the day to make an extensive ride, and the ranchman invited his neighbor and guest to return to the ranch for the night.
It was a foggy morning, and they started on a different route from that previously taken, the visiting ranchman going along.
The very inexperience of the Boer ranchman who came up as a member of the Volksraad made him an easy prey.
Oriole visits the family of a richranchman and enjoys herself immensely.
When Mr. Maynard found the ranchman had the very finest the hotel afforded, he chuckled delightedly to himself, for he had silently watched the manner in which Barbara received the greetings of the people who were so kind to her that Summer.
But, while this was being effected, a ranchman named Powell, who had a large drove of cattle near Fort Laramie, was robbed and murdered.
Smiling after he had turned his back, the ranchman rode away.
She had not yet put on her hat and gloves, as she was waiting to consult with a neighboring ranchman in regard to the purchase of a thousand head of cattle.
What does the boy himself wish to do, stay here at the ranch and learn to be a ranchman under my training, or go back to Kent House?
I hear you can beat any ranchman in Wyoming swinging a lasso.
Bob found interest in all, for as yet the California ranchman has not lost in humdrum occupations the initiative that brought him to a new country nor the influences of the experience he has gained there.
A young ranchmanwas making his way up the steps that led to the stage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranchman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
