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

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.

Then as he kicked off his leather chaps he said shortly, "I'm not looking for a job as a professional bronco-buster."

From When A Man's A Man by Wright, Harold Bell

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)