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.

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.

"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