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Definition of Cowpunchers
1. cowpuncher [n] - See also: cowpuncher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowpunchers
Literary usage of Cowpunchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rawhide Rawlins Stories by Charles Marion Russell (1921)
"Texas 'n California, bein' the startin' places, made two species of cowpunchers;
those west of the Rockies rangin' north, usin' centerfire or single-cinch ..."
2. Trailin' by Max Brand (1920)
"A breath like the faint sighing of wind reached them; the cowpunchers were
resigned, and started now to roll their Durham. But it seemed as if a chuckle ..."
3. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1905)
""Whoop! an' these lunatic cowpunchers were upon ... The other cowpunchers joined
in the chase ..."
4. Out of Doors by Emerson Hough (1915)
"of a morning. They have a way of crawling into your blankets at night also.
The cowpunchers always said that the bite of a centipede ..."
5. The Wilderness Hunter: An Account of the Big Game of the United States and by Theodore Roosevelt (1893)
"There had been many peccaries, or, as the Mexicans and cowpunchers of the border
usually call them, ..."
6. The Book of Bravery: Being True Stories in an Ascending Scale of Courage by Henry Wysham Lanier (1920)
""Into the thick of the leaders of the herd the cowpunchers crowd in from the
flanks, meeting there the men who were swept away in the first mad rush of the ..."
7. Rawhide Rawlins Stories by Charles Marion Russell (1921)
"Texas 'n California, bein' the startin' places, made two species of cowpunchers;
those west of the Rockies rangin' north, usin' centerfire or single-cinch ..."
8. Trailin' by Max Brand (1920)
"A breath like the faint sighing of wind reached them; the cowpunchers were
resigned, and started now to roll their Durham. But it seemed as if a chuckle ..."
9. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1905)
""Whoop! an' these lunatic cowpunchers were upon ... The other cowpunchers joined
in the chase ..."
10. Out of Doors by Emerson Hough (1915)
"of a morning. They have a way of crawling into your blankets at night also.
The cowpunchers always said that the bite of a centipede ..."
11. The Wilderness Hunter: An Account of the Big Game of the United States and by Theodore Roosevelt (1893)
"There had been many peccaries, or, as the Mexicans and cowpunchers of the border
usually call them, ..."
12. The Book of Bravery: Being True Stories in an Ascending Scale of Courage by Henry Wysham Lanier (1920)
""Into the thick of the leaders of the herd the cowpunchers crowd in from the
flanks, meeting there the men who were swept away in the first mad rush of the ..."
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