cowpuncher in a sentence
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- Brazilian cowpunchers also have their own distinctive gear, such as the " goiaca, " a pouch that doubles as a belt, and the " berrante, " a sort of trumpet made from a spiraling steer's horn used to guide the herd on a cattle drive.
- In his 59 years he has owned one art gallery and run another, been an editor at Art in America and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, played in a band with Janis Joplin, dropped acid, snorted cocaine, swallowed speed and written short stories about dying old cowpunchers and mystic young gamblers.
- It made a hell of a fan, which you need sometimes for a fire but more often to shunt cows this direction or that . " Before the invention of the cowboy hat ( which means before John B . Stetson came along ), the cowpunchers of the plains wore castoffs of previous lives and vocations.
- Shemp appeared with the Stooges in 76 shorts and a low-budget Out West " ( 1947 ), " Squareheads of the Round Table " ( 1948 ), and " Punchy Cowpunchers " ( 1950 ) proved that there was life after Curly and that Shemp could easily hold his own.
- In July 1949, 83-year-old Robert W . " Bob " Lewis, who said he had known Adams when he had been a cowpuncher and law officer in Socorro County, New Mexico, stated that he and Adams searched for the gold together in 1889 twenty five years after the massacre in 1864.
- The title track of that album, " Cowpuncher's Cantata ", is a medley of Bygraves'humorous interpretations of popular records of the time, including Frankie Laine's " Mule Train " and " Cry of the Wild Goose ", " ( Ghost ) Riders in the Sky " and " Jezebel ".
- Mayfield and two brothers, barbed-wire cowpuncher, who literally grew up on a ranch, who could ride hard, lasso accurately, and literally toss and tie up a bull & and had the wiry strength of a gymnast . " While he was on tour with Monroe, Edd Mayfield died of leukemia in a hospital in Bluefield, West Virginia.
- He was growing bored with routine illustration, and he wrote to Howard Pyle, the dean of American illustrators, that he had " done nothing but potboil of late " . ( Earlier, he and Pyle in a gesture of mutual respect had exchanged paintings Pyle's painting of a dead pirate for Remington's of a rough and ready cowpuncher ).
- Names for a cowboy in American English include " buckaroo, cowpoke, cowhand, " and " cowpuncher " . " Cowboy " is a term common throughout the west and particularly in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, " Buckaroo " is used primarily in the Great Basin and California, and " cowpuncher " mostly in Texas and surrounding states.
- Names for a cowboy in American English include " buckaroo, cowpoke, cowhand, " and " cowpuncher " . " Cowboy " is a term common throughout the west and particularly in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, " Buckaroo " is used primarily in the Great Basin and California, and " cowpuncher " mostly in Texas and surrounding states.