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

Education is a polisher, but I don't think three or four years' schooling would have made a Texas range rider ask for sherry over whisky—except to experiment with an exotic beverage.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

Between the range rider and his mount there is always an understanding born of loneliness, close companionship and mutual appreciation.

From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)