cattle thief
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When he first arrived in Washington as a Congressman, he was, he says, taken for "just another cattle thief from Texas" by the House leaders who assigned him to minor committees.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You an honest woman—the daughter of a cattle thief!"
From Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block by Burt L. Standish
His interest ending there, he went his way to take up again the preparation of his case in defense of the cattle thief whom he knew to be a thief, and nothing but a thief.
From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
There isn't a cattle thief or a bad man in this part of the country that won't run when he sees him—if he has the chance.
From Comrades of the Saddle The Young Rough Riders of the Plains by Frank V. Webster
Well, rather; he's a cattle thief, or worse.
From The Strange Case of Cavendish by Randall Parrish
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