cowhand

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Born in Nebraska and raised in South Dakota, Leahy worked in his youth as a cowhand, a soda jerk and a clerk in a trading post.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Wearing body cameras, he and brother Clancy Bundy and cowhand Cache Burnside ride hard on horseback roping bulls across the scrubby range, aided by the family dog, Kaylie.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Born into a family of Wyoming ranchers, Mr. Barlow was the first person to talk about the Internet “in a way that a cowhand can understand,” Wired magazine editor Kevin Kelly once said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2018

Cavazos was the son of a Mexican-American cowhand.

From Washington Times • Apr. 3, 2016

He gave up drinking thereafter and went to work for the "Three Seven" outfit as an ordinary cowhand.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann