wagon boss
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wagon boss
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Fust I’d better make you acquainted to the wagon boss.
From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd
"Why did you have to hunt wagons, and what has a wagon boss got to do with a cattle ranch?" asked the girl.
From Prairie Flowers by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
Early on the morning of the third day, I stopped at a stage station, where I met the assistant wagon boss who was with the bull train during my first trip across the plains.
From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by H. DeF. Patterson
There was no more competent wagon boss in the border-land than he.
From Man Size by William MacLeod Raine
I went and bid the wagon boss and the other men of the train good bye and told them of the arrangement now pending between the Col. and the people at Bent's Fort.
From Chief of Scouts by William F. Drannan
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