Sentence examples for cowhand from inspiring English sources

Gaucho, the nomadic and colourful horseman and cowhand of the Argentine and Uruguayan Pampas (grasslands), who flourished from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century and has remained a folk hero similar to the cowboy in western North America.

Mix worked as a cowhand in Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, and Montana and served in the U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War and in the pursuit of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution.

Pickett performed until about 1916, working as a cowhand and rancher thereafter.

What Bonilla had in his hand was a gun — a tiny.22-calibre revolver that looked like the sort of gun that a gambler at the Long Branch Saloon might have pulled out of his sleeve when threatened by a cowhand he'd just fleeced.

For those who took the long view and had patience it was the classic route for a lowly cowhand to own his own spread — marry the rancher's daughter.

But Brooklyn doesn't need or want an old cowhand wandering around telling tall tales and recommending wrong wines.

The black and white hats, woven from dried cane leaves, and whose name can be loosely translated as "turned hat", are worn proudly on the Caribbean coast by cowhands, professors, merchants, cumbia dancers, politicians and visiting dignitaries.

Their costume, still worn by modern Argentine cowhands, included a chiripa girding the waist, a woolen poncho, and long, accordion-pleated trousers, called bombachas, gathered at the ankles and covering the tops of high leather boots.

The term also has been used to refer to cowhands and other people of Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil.

The "cautious" dates from a trip to Texas in the mid-seventies, for a book that introduced me to the pitiable state of industrial feedlot cattle, crammed into pens to be fattened on quasi-chemical feed laced with antibiotics and hormones, to say nothing of the frantic baying of ranch yearlings driven through chutes to be branded and cut by cowhands, their testicles fed to the foreman's dogs.

An old man tells how he was introduced to sex and death on the same day, when he was almost 13: He was staying at his cousin's ranch and was friendly with Rufino, one of the cowhands.