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

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

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

Germany and the Rhineland;   visit to the Metternichs' château, Johannisberg;   reminiscences of the war;   famous Johannisberg wine;   a gentlemanly American bronco-buster captures the Westphals;   at Weimar;   calling on a noble farmer;   boar-hunting in Westphalia.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)

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

A thoroughly characteristic story is told by several writers about a C.M.R. man who had been a cowboy and "bronco-buster" in Alberta.

From Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by MacBeth, R. G. (Roderick George)