bronco-buster

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“Fight or Fall” is a gorgeous midtempo ballad urging unity among men, and “Cowboy Song” looks at the lonely independence of a rodeo bronco-buster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

And then, all at once, from vituperation the bronco-buster fell to pleading, not for life, but for death.

From Arizona Nights by White, Stewart Edward

I managed to scramble aboard—something after the fashion of a bronco-buster who mounts at a gallop.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

The bronco-buster, noting this, became instantly filled with wrath.

From "Forward, March" A Tale of the Spanish-American War by Munroe, Kirk

By the time the set was disentangled, the dance seemed to be over, and the "bronco-buster" dismissed the dancers with the cynical prophecy, "You'll all get married on a stor-my day!"

From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Moore, Emma G.