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  • Breaking the wild and woolly broncho is thrilling and he needs no other tonic; but when one has gone through all this and he finds that no Broncho -- or, for that matter, any other horse -- ever foaled cannot be ridden, it loses its charm and becomes boring.

    The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • The move to California spawned new careers of two notable figures: D.W. Griffith, the great director, and G.M. "Broncho" Billy Anderson, the first western star.

    Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

  • Like the leading spirit among the leprous men who sat at the gate of Samaria, the "Broncho" gathered up the feeling of the meeting in one long soul-stirring, racuous bawl, which, interpreted, meant, "Why sit we here until we die?"

    Purple Springs 1921

  • Then it was that the old cow, an acknowledged leader of the herd, who bore the name of the "Broncho," on account of her wildness, her glaring red eyes and her branching horns, with an angry toss of her head to shake the water from her eyes, lifted her voice in one long, angry, rolling bellow that seemed to startle the whole herd.

    Purple Springs 1921

  • "Broncho" forging up the hill, the whole herd, as if at a word of command, lurched forward up the bank.

    Purple Springs 1921

  • Broncho-arterial abnormalities such as double outlet ventricles and superoinferior ventricles.

    Pediatric cardiac diagnosis and testing 2010

  • These panels are from the "Broncho Bill" story, and yes, I know it was a product of the time, and that in cowboy 'n' Indian stories, the Indians were gonna be the bad guys...but still, after reading Nancy and Sluggo and the Katzenjammer Kids in the same book?

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • These panels are from the "Broncho Bill" story, and yes, I know it was a product of the time, and that in cowboy 'n' Indian stories, the Indians were gonna be the bad guys...but still, after reading Nancy and Sluggo and the Katzenjammer Kids in the same book?

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • "Do you remember the Zuñis?" referring to another adventure told in the story of the "Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border."

    The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes Frank Fowler

  • At places it was only knee deep and at other places where they were obliged to cross it was necessary for the horses to swim; but this was only fun for the Broncho

    The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes Frank Fowler

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