cattle thief

Every cowboy on our ranch has a Winchester rifle, and a lead pill from one of them makes a cattle thief sick.

Terry heard the blow that Fred gave the cattle thief and he knew what it meant, for the fellow sank down without uttering a word.

Oh, yes; but it is bad policy to let a cattle thief go loose, after he has been caught in the act.

And all went smoothly and well, till the case of one Robson, a notorious Redesdale horse and cattle-thief, came up for discussion.

As McLagan would show no mercy to his own brother were he a proven cattle-thief, so Jim loathed the crime in little less degree.