range rider

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For the last several years, John and Melva Dawson and their son Jeff, outside Colville, have used money from outside groups to hire their daughter to work as a professional range rider.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2014

Henry helped out at home, hired out as a range rider, attending the Flagstaff schools in the winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

It grew in time into a perpetual grimace, so that the expression of an old range rider is that of a man steeling himself to pass through some grim ordeal.

From Trailin'! by Brand, Max

But, unlike the ordinary range rider, he wore an army forage cap in place of the wide-brimmed hat of the plains.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

He cut into the haystack, cut up a few posts from the corral fence and made a fire—and when a range rider makes a fire it burns like a conflagration.

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.