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

Then a lean, slab-sided, rather frowzy-looking man, outwardly differing in no essential respect from the professional bronco-buster of the Southwest, slipped from the spectators' seats into the ring.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

An incident occurred at the upper camp that winter which clearly shows the difference between the cow-hand of that day and the modern bronco-buster.

From Reed Anthony, Cowman by Adams, Andy

I fell into line alongside a big bronco-buster with his high-heeled boots and his clanking spurs and his bandy-legged, firm-footed horseman's stride.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

"Swing somewhere," and "Don't forget the bronco-buster," etc. etc., as someone has described it.

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas