cowhand

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Born in Nebraska and raised in South Dakota, Leahy worked in his youth as a cowhand, a soda jerk and a clerk in a trading post.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Wearing body cameras, he and brother Clancy Bundy and cowhand Cache Burnside ride hard on horseback roping bulls across the scrubby range, aided by the family dog, Kaylie.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Born into a family of Wyoming ranchers, Mr. Barlow was the first person to talk about the Internet “in a way that a cowhand can understand,” Wired magazine editor Kevin Kelly once said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2018

Cavazos was the son of a Mexican-American cowhand.

From Washington Times • Apr. 3, 2016

Such an old cowhand as Vic Gregg could not fail to see the forms of cows and heavy-necked bulls and running calves in that drift of clouds.

From The Seventh Man by Brand, Max