cowhand
Americannoun
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cowhands
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Origin of cowhand
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Born in Nebraska and raised in South Dakota, Leahy worked in his youth as a cowhand, a soda jerk and a clerk in a trading post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Wearing body cameras, he and brother Clancy Bundy and cowhand Cache Burnside ride hard on horseback roping bulls across the scrubby range, aided by the family dog, Kaylie.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
During her year-long journey, Grace works as a cowhand, domestic servant, con artist and thief.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2017
Cavazos was the son of a Mexican-American cowhand.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2016
Such an old cowhand as Vic Gregg could not fail to see the forms of cows and heavy-necked bulls and running calves in that drift of clouds.
From The Seventh Man by Brand, Max
He did hilarious impressions of people like his cousin Fagin Springer, a singing evangelist from Virginia, and the tough old cowhands on his uncle’s Montana ranch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
Houston is also home to the rodeo, the country’s oldest Black trail ride, and Black cowboy culture — in 1800s Texas, one in four cowhands were Black.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
From time to time, diverting visitors wander into Faye’s campsite — friendly neighbors with a dinner invitation, Indigenous cowhands with an unusual request — their whimsical intrusions adding flavor to an unyieldingly spare story.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
Out of the eight cowhands assembled near the chuckwagon fire, only four have the pleasure of doing it full time.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2017
For the next ten months, Shin stayed where the pig farmer had left him, tending cattle in mountain pastures and sleeping on a ranch-house floor with two surly Chinese cowhands.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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