ranchman

Example Sentences

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He was a big ranchman and woolen manufacturer until he was 35, when he began his diplomatic career at Petrograd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fifteen years ago Mrs. Vallely, wife of a San Fernando Valley ranchman, took over the entire program of a Los Angeles reading club when other members failed to write the papers assigned to them.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was George Miller, millionaire ranchman, oilman, farmer-man, circus-man.

From Time Magazine Archive

By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The consequence of all this was that a big ranchman spoke of his summer range with the same sense of proprietorship and security of possession as of his alfalfa field or pits of ensilage.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various