chuck wagon

Example Sentences

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There is a branding iron, a snake hook and an old chuck wagon dinner bell.

From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2019

Cinematic scenes from her upbringing on the family ranch find young Sandra changing a tire all by herself as she struggles to get the chuck wagon to the cowboys before cattle-branding time.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2019

But on this first night of the roundup, as the sun sank low over the Canadian river breaks, the cowboys discussed a more pressing topic as they finished their chuck wagon supper.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2017

We packed big tents on company streets around a chuck wagon where a massive man in comically wide blue kersey trousers served up cold cuts and shoofly pie.

From Salon • May 28, 2017

They had found him asleep under the chuck wagon, whence he was hauled out, feet first, by one of the returning guards.

From The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains by Patchin, Frank Gee