cattleman

Example Sentences

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All possessed wealth due to their headrights—and the Osage Tribal Council suspected that a prominent local white cattleman, William K. Hale, might be to blame.

From National Geographic • Sep. 15, 2023

In Kansas, 65-year-old cattleman Mike Limon thought he had beaten COVID-19 and went back to work for a few days.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021

An old cattleman, he had run the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the 1990s.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2020

A Texas cattleman flirts with a saloon singer and shoots it out with rustlers at the Alamo.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2020

In 1912, at nineteen, he’d packed a bag, like Huck Finn lighting out for the Territory, and gone to live with his uncle, a domineering cattleman named William K. Hale, in Fairfax.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann