rustler

Example Sentences

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A rustler helps a rancher drive cattle from Oregon to Wyoming.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2019

Is that a breeze, or could a rustler be lurking there, ready to swathe himself like a ghost?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2018

“He is definitely” a serial cattle rustler, Heatly said.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2011

"Bandit Invincible" also describes how Ed Seeley, a rustler and prospector, told Cassidy's gang how to find a remote hideout in northern Wyoming's Bighorn Canyon.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2011

Though reserved to the point of being shy, the sheriff was adept at assuming undercover identities, having pretended to be everything from a cow rustler to a counterfeiter.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann