bronco-buster

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“Fight or Fall” is a gorgeous midtempo ballad urging unity among men, and “Cowboy Song” looks at the lonely independence of a rodeo bronco-buster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

"In a week you'll be a regular Arizona bronco-buster."

From Tahara Among African Tribes by Sherman, Harold M.

I fell into line alongside a big bronco-buster with his high-heeled boots and his clanking spurs and his bandy-legged, firm-footed horseman's stride.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

"The boss ain't no bronco-buster," remarked Dow, apologetically, to the cowboys.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann

Germany and the Rhineland;   visit to the Metternichs' château, Johannisberg;   reminiscences of the war;   famous Johannisberg wine;   a gentlemanly American bronco-buster captures the Westphals;   at Weimar;   calling on a noble farmer;   boar-hunting in Westphalia.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)