Immediately thereafter the Mexicans whom the drover had employed as vaqueros and guides deserted him; the people of the hamlet closed their houses against the trio of gringos.
So they allowed his vaqueros to ride into their herds and in silence they watched them drive out the animals which bore his brand.
But the Mexicans had been suffering from this sort of depredations until patience had ceased to be a virtue and a band of thirty dusky vaqueros were following the trail of those stolen longhorns.
And John Slaughter rode off behind his vaqueros without so much as looking back.
Finally he vanished down in Texas with hisvaqueros and the salvaged herd.
Chisum, who was an old-timer in the country and had fought Comanches all along the river before others had dared to drive up the trail, produced a bill of sale for sixty rebranded cattle which the Texan's vaqueros had cut out.
As the vaqueros dashed about hither and thither to keep their herds moving in the appointed direction, the infants screamed in their childish treble and spurred madly too.
Instantly a small Soledad girl was after him, the vaqueros reining back to enjoy the strange ride with their eyes.
The vaqueros were in a perfect frenzy of rage and terror combined--shrieking Maladetto!
The vaqueros reported another train within half a mile of twenty-five mules, and others on the Grade.
The vaqueros made the cliffs resound with their Carambas and Carajas, their Dona Marias and Santa Sofias!
But the bull was not satisfied; he pawed the ground with demanding hoofs; and the vaqueros galloped into the ring with another bear.
We dismounted, throwing our bridles to the vaqueros in waiting; and while Indian servants spread the table, the girls joined hands and danced about the pit, throwing flowers upon the bullocks, singing and laughing.
These men had deliberately crossed the path of the trail outfit in order to take from the vaqueros their money.
You know how vaqueros are always comin' in and chargin' goods against the boss.
Mexicans scrubbed and scoured under the direction of Alice and Mrs. Mackenzie, and vaqueros rode hither and thither on bootless errands devised by their nervous master.
If my vaqueros met up with him prowling around they might show him as warm a welcome as you did half an hour ago.
Don José, I know you don't like a gringo major domo to lead Don Andres' vaqueros on rodeo.
The blue-eyed one--did you find from the vaqueros why he did not come?
But Manuel's mad because the don offered me the place, and has quit; and he says half the vaqueros will leave, that they won't work under a gringo.
The way your vaqueros parted and galloped around our camp was a pretty good imitation of their preliminary flourishes.
But there were the Picardo vaqueros stanchly swearing by all the saints they knew that these two gringos were not as other gringos; that these two were worthy a place amongst true Californians.
Half a mile or so the vaqueros galloped; then two of the leaders singled out a fat, young steer and made after him with their riatas hissing as the rawhide circled over their heads.
Dade listened to the voices shouting orders and greetings without as the vaqueros hurried here and there in excited preparations for the event.
He established a camp just within the northern boundary of his land; and there he stationed his most efficient watch-dog, Manuel Sepulveda, with two vaqueros whose business it was to stop the depredations.
It was a day of expectancy to the vaqueros and myself.
On arriving at the rancho, the vaqueros scattered among the jacals of their amigos, while June and myself were welcomed at the casa primero.
The vaqueros tell me that my foreman is only around the bend of the river, and I'm going to ask all you gentlemen to remain until I can send for him.
Our vaqueros will not be very busy for some time to come, and it will not inconvenience us to send a reply by messenger to the Mission.
The news spread through the camp like wild-fire, even to the vaqueros on night herd, who instantly began chanting an old love song.
We had herded the horses the night before, and the vaqueroswere halfway to the ferry when we overtook them.
Even the stranger vaqueros were compelled to share the hospitality of Las Palomas like invited guests.
Dan Happersett was given five vaqueros and stood the first watch or until one A.
To the question if he was in the ranch at present, fortune favored me, as Fidel and nearly all the regular vaqueros were cutting timbers in the encinal that day with which to build new corrals at one of the outlying tanks.
But by letting them scatter well, by the time they reached the wagon it required but two vaqueros to hold them.
Our half circle to the southward was perfect, and each turning back, we rode our appointed divisions until the vaqueros from the wagon were sighted, throwing in cattle and closing up the northern portion of the circle.
That's the best kill we'll make on this trip," said Uncle Lance as we mounted, leaving two vaqueros to take the hide.
For the next few days our dragnet took in both sides of the Nueces, and when, on reaching the mouth of the Ganso, we were met by Deweese and the vaqueros we had another bunch of nearly a thousand ready.
The last round-up on the afternoon of the fourth day, our outriders sighted the vaqueros from Deweese's outfit, circling and drifting in the cattle on their half of the circle.
One of thevaqueros then rode cautiously up, and, bending over in the saddle, unfastened both of the lariats, and set the animal free.
The vaqueros did not halt at the corral, as we expected, but kept across the prairie, and disappeared among the trees on the opposite side.
At this moment one of the vaqueros launched his lazo, which, floating gracefully out, settled down over one horn.
The vaqueros would be eating by dawn, but if it was possible to drive fast, there might be hope of coffee at least.
She had been noting the curious fact that the party of vaqueros and the priest had left the trail one by one, heading toward the hills wrapped still in the mist of the morning.
A man stood back of the cactus watching with tireless eyes the dividing of the herds and the quick work of the vaquerosas their excited mustangs raced for a stray or a rebel from the ranks.
The vaqueros coming with the band of horses from the beach soon," he observed.
It was Juanita, and the service of prayer was ending in the usual duo; one of the vaqueros with a fine barytone voice was singing the echoing stanzas of praise.
The vaqueros had circled the rebellious animals, and headed them back.
Don Enrico Cordoba and some vaqueros rode madly through the corral and into the place of the huge bonfire and the still kneeling Indians.
Once there came to them the sound of cheering, and they looked up to see a group of vaqueros waving their hats and shouting down.
Tell the vaqueros that I am moving my sheep only to take them to the railroad.
The four vaqueros were ordered to look to their pistols before remounting; they did not carry guns.
Will at once proceeded to carry out his plan of bending the ramrods: a hot spot in the fire was selected, and two of the vaqueros increased the intensity of the heat by fanning it with their sombreros.
Then he chose the lightest of the vaqueros to follow him.
Juan shouted to the vaqueros not to use their pistols.
Although they had but just eaten a meal, thevaqueros were perfectly ready to begin another.
Such was the opinion of the rest of the vaqueros and the two Indians when, on arriving at the fire, he told them what Will proposed doing.
Sixteen rifles flashed out, half the Apaches fell, and before the others could recover from their surprise at this unexpected attack the vaqueroscharged down upon them.
The twelve vaqueros who have not guns had better go with you; that will give three to each raft.
We found twenty of thevaqueros assembled at the hacienda; they had taken to the woods at the first attack, and had remained in hiding until they found that the red-skins had gone.
Small men," the chief said, when Will with the two chief vaqueros came up to him.
I know that it is necessary, and that your vaqueros do it almost instantaneously; at the same time, it is not necessary for me to see it.
A terrible cry of astonishment and dismay broke from the crowd, and before they could recover from their surprise, the vaqueros and the two Indians, headed by Will, burst their way through them.
Assuredly he was not as the other vaqueros who visited the patron.
It required no sophistication on her part to realize that this caballero was not as the vaqueros she had heretofore known.
There is leetle smoke, like camp-fire, up the valley—and Creet's vaqueros come home down Tonto trail.
He looked like any one of the hundred or more vaqueros who lived the wild lonely life of the cattle country roundabout.
American squatter came to her father and said:-- "There is a large piece of your land where the cattle run loose, and your vaqueros are all gone to the mines.
In the meantime, Don Ramon entered the dining hall of the hacienda, where all the vaqueros and peons were assembled.
Provided with torches, the peons and vaqueros commenced a battue of an immense extent in search of their mistress and the major-domo.
I should let him choose his own hands, and he could either take vaquerosor American cowboys, and I should get rid of a great deal of trouble, while he, in a few years, would have a good chance of making a fortune.
He had also six vaqueros chosen from those working on the estates; these he had only selected after he had gained strength enough to ride out with the herds, and had seen them at work.
You know that we have been having constant bothers with the new people of the north, and several of our vaqueros have been killed, and I can obtain no redress, for the white cowboys all declare that the vaqueros are the aggressors.
A Gift and A Purchase For a week the scene of the round-up lay within riding-distance of the ranch-house, and Madeline passed most of this time in the saddle, watching the strenuous labors of the vaqueros and cowboys.
Now, Miss Majesty, we hevn't got rid of Don Carlos an' his vaqueros yet.
You're going to make the vaqueros take you for me!
And in turn Don Carlos's vaqueros were always chasing Stillwell's cattle away from the Mexican's watering-place.
The characteristic red faces had taken on so much dust that cowboys could not be distinguished from vaqueros except by the difference in dress.
The cowboys edged away from the vaqueros and the bronzed, bearded horsemen who were evidently Hawe's assistants.
She saw the vaqueros break the legs of calves and let them lie till a white cowboy came along and shot them.
That was just before the vaqueros approached with Bonita.
These vaqueros have been different since Don Carlos sold the ranch.
She had never seen anyvaqueros that resembled these horsemen.
The Don's pretty slick, but his vaqueros are bad actors.
What have Don Carlos and hisvaqueros to do with this?
The laced, fringed, ornamented vaqueros presented a sharp contrast to the bare-legged, sandal-footed boys and the ragged herders.
Don Carlos's Vaqueros Early the following morning Stewart, with a company of cowboys, departed for Don Carlos's rancho.
Stillwell's cowboys were always chasing these vaqueros off land that belonged to Stillwell.
While [they were] there the Indians related to them that the vaqueros of San Luis [i.
All these items were turned over to the vaqueros [of Father Cabot] so that they might deliver them to the people of San Luis.
Was it not enough to talk old woman's gossip and tell vaqueros tales at home, without making uneasy the strangers?
As the señora looked dreamily over the hills, she became aware of the peculiar actions of a man on horseback, who was approaching the house from the direction in which her husband and the vaqueros had disappeared.
I ordered the vaqueros to secure the weapon and make Basilio descend to the ground.
Prom the gray's saddle he took a short piece of rope, such as vaqueros use to tie the legs of an animal when they have roped and thrown it.
The Japanese cook tried to throw her out of the kitchen; so I have locked him up in the room where of old I was wont to place vaqueros who desired to settle their quarrels without interference.
At the sound of the chapel bell all the peons and vaqueros retired to their jacales in order to sleep.
Paredes, you will at once mount your horse, and order all the peons and vaqueros to bring the ganado and horses into the hacienda.
They had about thirty vaqueros under a corporal driving the herd, and the cattle were strung out in regular trailing manner.
A March day on the Rio Grande with wet clothing is not summer, and the vaqueros hesitated a bit before following the example of Quarternight and myself and dispensing with saddles and boots.
When the cattle were once inside the wing we went rapidly, four vaqueros riding outside the fence to keep the cattle from turning the chute on reaching swimming water.
The vaqueros forced every hoof into the river, following and shouting as far as the midstream, when they were swimming so nicely, Quarternight called off the men and all turned their horses back to the Mexican side.
I at once proclaimed Fox Quarternight, whose years and experience outranked mine, the gringo corporal for the day, at which the vaqueros smiled, but I noticed they never used the word.
A number of vaqueros attempted to catch him, but he outswam them and came out with the cattle; the excitement was too much for him to miss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vaqueros" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
