sheepherder

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On “Perfect Strangers,” which I adored as a girl, Balki Bartokomous was a childlike sheepherder who arrived to Chicago from a strange land, the fictional island of Mypos, where telephones and indoor plumbing were scarce.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Sen. Paul Laxalt — the son of a Basque immigrant sheepherder.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2021

A piglet unexpectedly becomes a champion sheepherder with training from his adoptive canine mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2019

His mother died of cancer several months after he was born, and his father sent the boy and a sister to live with their grandparents in Montrose, Colo., while he worked as a sheepherder.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2018

But the sheepherder merely chucked all these iridescent artifacts into a great gleaming pile and flailed away some more with his shovel.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols