ranchman
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Origin of ranchman
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He was George Miller, millionaire ranchman, oilman, farmer-man, circus-man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fifteen years ago Mrs. Vallely, wife of a San Fernando Valley ranchman, took over the entire program of a Los Angeles reading club when other members failed to write the papers assigned to them.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a big ranchman and woolen manufacturer until he was 35, when he began his diplomatic career at Petrograd.
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Manson, said the ranchman, read deeply in Oriental theology, and believed in reincarnation and the insignificance of individual lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
He uses and abuses his political connections and has his ranchmen and henchmen branded with Yellowstone’s “Y.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2018
The ranchmen don't want the track to cut through their open range.
From Time Magazine Archive
Understandably, the ranchmen waged all-out war against wolves, and toward the end of the last century thousands of the bloody brutes were trapped or shot or poisoned every year.
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In the late 19th century, romantic, well-to-do immigrants from Britain poured in: of the 311 Wyoming "ranchmen" the census tallied in 1880, 52 were British.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a dangerous life for the ranchmen, so that many of those who undertook to raise cattle on the Western Plains, left their families behind them.
From Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America by Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
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