Sentence examples for sheepherder from inspiring English sources

Each flock is tended by a sheepherder and his dogs who move systematically from one grazing area to another.

The notion of keepsakes, especially clothing, as sacred touchstones brought to mind the final image of "Brokeback Mountain," in which a grieving sheepherder gently buttons his dead lover's shirt, hung in his closet.

"Watch a collie work with a sheepherder and you will come away amazed how small a gesture the person can do to communicate with his dog," said Alexandra Horowitz, a dog behavior expert at Barnard College and author of "Inside of a Dog".

Though not much to look at, these brief glimpses of soul-and-soil connection — a sheepherder watching his lambs gambol, a young resident explaining how a favorite mountain nurtures prayer — unfold with heartfelt simplicity.

At 17, he and his girlfriend had a baby, prompting his decision to drop out of high school and work as a sheepherder.

Owned by Akku (Lochey), an aging sheepherder in an impoverished village on the Himalayan plains, the hound is a great deal more valuable than it looks.

Dogs were first used to assist sheepherders in the 1570s, but other varieties were bred for different herding tasks.

Arabian dromedary (one-humped) camels are indispensable in desert areas for transporting sheepherders, for drawing water from deep desert wells, and as a source of wool, milk, and meat.

Sheepherders were the first non-Aboriginal people to settle the area, in the mid-19th century.

The French and Franco-Provençal spoken in Valle d'Aosta date from union with Savoy, but the German spoken in the same area dates from the 12th-century emigration of German sheepherders from the upper valleys of the Rhône.

The area was first settled in 1838 by sheepherders and developed rapidly after the discovery of rich alluvial gold deposits in 1851.