The country was alive with game of all kinds, even an occasional buffalo, while wild and unbranded cattle were seen daily.
At one lake on what is now known as South Prairie, in a single moonlight night, we roped and tied down forty head, the next morning finding thirty of them unbranded and therefore unowned.
Under the customs of the country, any unbranded animal, one year old or over, was a maverick, and the property of any one who cared to brand the unclaimed stray.
The cows andunbranded calves we urged into another.
Our task for the moment was to search out the unbranded J H calves.
Also are there subtler means, grading in skill from the re-branding through a wet blanket, through the crafty refashioning of a brand to the various methods of separating the cow from her unbranded calf.
You know most every cowman now and then picks up some unbranded stock that he knows isn't his.
With a running iron a brand could be changed, or the wrong mark put on unbranded cattle; but the stamping iron would give only one pattern.
Every new rancher drives in a few unbranded calves an' keeps them.
I'll stampede over you red-hot and a-whooping, as sure as I'm the Unbranded Maverick of the Rio Pecos!
All the same, I didn't think you had cooked his hash when you sheathed your knife in his dirty hide, and it was a surprise for the Unbranded Maverick of the Rio Pecos when he failed to rise to the surface after going in for that little swim.
I'm beginning to spoil for a rumpus, and I'm theUnbranded Maverick of the Rio Pecos.
For instance, a man would often seeunbranded cattle when riding about, and there was nothing to prevent his dismounting, building a fire, heating his iron, and putting his own brand on them.
The owners and their best vaqueros now go into the immense band of cattle, and try to get the cows and the unbranded calves separated from the rest.
All the other cattle owners did, so Maverick claimed all unbranded stock.
They called every stray and unbranded beast a 'maverick.
He had often seen the unshod and unbranded ponies of the high country run along a trail for a mile or so and then dash off across the open.
This consisted of each man in succession being sent into the herd, usually with a companion, to cut out the cows of his brand or brands which were followed by unbranded calves, and also to cut out any mavericks or unbranded yearlings.
If an unbranded calf has left or lost its mother it has lost its identity as well and finds it again only after being branded, although it may have swapped owners in the process.
If a calf remains unbrandeduntil after it is weaned and quits its mother, it becomes a maverick and is liable to be lost to its owner.
Every unbranded calf is caught and branded in its mother's brand.
Then there's a bunch of wild, unbranded yearlings, probably twenty or thirty, over on that pasture by the cliffs.
There are some unweaned calves, and a few unbranded yearlings that will just about pay the cost of their roundup.
The bunch was made up mainly of cows with calves, or steers of less than a year old, who believed in the policy of self-determination, being still unbranded and still conspicuously independent.
Conspicuously Angela attached herself to Tomlinson-Thorpe, regardless of the gaping eyes and mouths of neighbours, Puritan to the backbone in everything except the stealing of unbranded calves.
He might ear-mark a wandering piglet, for instance, or clap his iron upon an unbranded yearling; but who could swear that these estrays were not the lawful property of him upon whose land they were found?
But they were either unbranded or branded with a letter and numbers to which no stock-owners in the district could lay claim.
It's my belief he'd have sooner made a ten-pound note by an unbrandedcolt or a mob of fat cattle than five times as much in any other way.
Almost at once he saw an unbranded steer and pointed his whip towards it.
Mick was mustering the north of Sidcotinga run in order to brand all cleanskins, and there were probably not more than a hundredunbranded cattle in that mob of nearly half a thousand.
If they occasionally erred in the wild confusion of strayed cattle and unbranded yearlings, presumably the property of the Government (was there not a celebrity thus claiming all estrays humorously designated 'Unbranded Kelly'?
Roy was to have charge of the horses on the ranch, of which there were several hundred, not counting many lost on range and mountain, or the unbranded colts.
It ain't fair to speak bad of the dead, but the truth is thet Al Auchincloss got his start by stealin' sheep an' unbranded cattle.
Fat cattle were to be cut out of the herd for shipment, unbranded calves were to be branded, and strays tallied and thrown back to their own feeding grounds.
The talk was all about the work on hand, the tussles with steers, the number of unbranded calves, the queries concerning shipment, etc.
To nugget: in Australian slang, to appropriate your neighbours' unbranded calves.
Clear-skins,' as unbrandedcattle were commonly called, were taken charge of at once.
Hence the term "Maverick" was applied to any unbranded animal running loose on the range.
One rancher would vie with his neighbor in generosity in the matter of unbranded calves.
They'll cut one out of the herd, or appropriate a maverick, or an unbranded calf, and feast up on it.
Some of the Diamond X cowboys had come upon an unbranded calf with its mother as they rode across the prairies.
My principal duties at this season consisted in riding the range on the lookout for unbranded calves, many calves always being missed on the round-up.
Twenty head--among them one Bar Cross cow with an unbranded calf some eight or ten months old.
I came through MacCleod's Park, started up a Bar Cross cow and her unbranded yearling, and I caught the yearling at the head of Redgate.
At the close of the civil war, Texas was full of unbranded and unowned cattle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unbranded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
