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.
My saddle stock now numbered over a thousand head, one hundred of which were on the Double Mountain ranch, seven remudas on the trail, leaving available over two hundred on the Clear Fork.
The little ranchman who bought five hundred steers in the fall of 1869 was in the market the present summer for a thousand head.
Gentle horses were in good demand among shippers and ranchmen, and during my brief stay I must have handled a thousand head, buying whole remudas and retailing in quantities to suit, not failing to keep the choice ones for my own use.
A thousand head of cattle cannot easily be hidden, or, for that matter, disposed of.
With her they returned also the thousand head of cattle which he had paid and twelve hundred more by way of fine, for the balance was remitted by agreement.
A thousand head of Mr. Hood's cattle were driven off and sold in Adelaide.
But don't you think our tracks will be easy to follow with a thousand head of cattle before us?
I'm devilish sorry for your family; but if nothing less than a thousand head of cattle will satisfy people, they must expect trouble to come of it.
For instance, if you have one hundred head of cattle, you don't require very much range; if you have a thousand head, you need so much more.
It called for further investment on his part of twenty-six thousand dollars to cover the purchase of a thousand head or more of cattle.
Cowboy song Early in May, Roosevelt's men returned from Fergus Falls with a thousand head of cattle.
During Roosevelt's absence in the East, Merrifield and Sylvane had returned from Iowa with a thousand head of yearlings and "two-year-olds.
The Oodnadatta trucking-yards are made of iron rails set in concrete and are capable of holding more than a thousand head of stock.
It takes a long time to water a thousand head of cattle, and by the time the Sidcotinga troughs were full, with no cattle drinking at them, the sun had just set.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousand head" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
