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
A thoroughly characteristic story is told by several writers about a C.M.R. man who had been a cowboy and "bronco-buster" in Alberta.
From Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by MacBeth, R. G. (Roderick George)
He was our recent acquaintance, Silas Pine, bronco-buster from the Bad Lands, who, with clinched teeth and rigid features, was in full practice of his chosen profession.
From "Forward, March" A Tale of the Spanish-American War by Munroe, Kirk
By the time the set was disentangled, the dance seemed to be over, and the "bronco-buster" dismissed the dancers with the cynical prophecy, "You'll all get married on a stor-my day!"
From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Moore, Emma G.
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)
