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

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

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas

Then there was little McGinty, the bronco-buster from Oklahoma, who never had walked a hundred yards if by any possibility he could ride.

From The Rough Riders by Roosevelt, Theodore

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)

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