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

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 boss ain't no bronco-buster," remarked Dow, apologetically, to the cowboys.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann

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