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Definition of Trail boss
1. Noun. The person responsible for driving a herd of cattle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trail Boss
Literary usage of Trail boss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Cowboys by Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1921)
"The trail boss shook his head. "It takes less men to handle one herd o' three
... They were evidently on the war-path, but, as the trail boss explained ..."
2. Diagnostic et séméologie des maladies tropicales by Hermann Toenjes, Andy Adams, R. Wurtz, A. Thiroux, Herbert Myrick (1905)
"The cattle were being drifted east by the deputies and several of our boys, the
trail boss having called off his men on an agreement of the count. ..."
3. Johnny Nelson: How a One-time Pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the Famous Bar-20 by Clarence Edward Mulford (1920)
"McCullough, one of his men, and the two foremen stopped before the point, the
trail boss and Huff on one side, the others not far away and facing them. ..."
4. Building A Shared Vision For Environmental Education: A Conference Sponsored (1992)
"The mission of trail boss is to teach volunteer leaders specialized skills for
... An Interagency Agreement on the trail boss program was signed and an ..."
5. A Ranchman's Recollections: An Autobiography in which Unfamiliar Facts by Frank S. Hastings (1921)
"Two books written by Andy Adams, an old trail boss, furnish in fascinating detail
all the incidents of a dozen trails crowded into a composite story of one ..."
6. The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the by Philip Ashton Rollins (1922)
"The men accompanying the beasts were in number such as, for a large herd,
allowed—not counting the foreman (usually termed "trail boss"), his assistant ..."
7. American Adventures: A Second Trip "abroad at Home" by Julian Street (1917)
"Heah 's fiffy dollahs.''' "Well," one of us asked presently, "what happened?"
"Ah took 'em ridin' through de jungle trail, boss," he returned, innocently. ..."
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