range rider

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For the last several years, John and Melva Dawson and their son Jeff, outside Colville, have used money from outside groups to hire their daughter to work as a professional range rider.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2014

Henry helped out at home, hired out as a range rider, attending the Flagstaff schools in the winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Education is a polisher, but I don't think three or four years' schooling would have made a Texas range rider ask for sherry over whisky—except to experiment with an exotic beverage.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

And a gaunt range rider, who stood with others at the porch door, looking on, asked a comrade: "Do you reckon that's style back East?"

From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane

This quality of observance proved of incalculable benefit to me in many ways during my life as a range rider in the western country.

From The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Love, Nat