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

It grew in time into a perpetual grimace, so that the expression of an old range rider is that of a man steeling himself to pass through some grim ordeal.

From Trailin'! by Brand, Max

Bess was seventeen, a romp, very pretty, and hail-fellow-well-met with every range rider in a radius of thirty miles.

From Mavericks by Raine, William MacLeod

But, unlike the ordinary range rider, he wore an army forage cap in place of the wide-brimmed hat of the plains.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre