bronc

• “I LEFT Quito with two Indian muleteers and four mules, well enough mounted on a hired "bronc" for the rough trail which leads from the mountain capital through the snow-covered Pass of Papallacta to the little town of the same name.”

  Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure

• “Here there was larking, there there was horse-racing, elsewhere there was "a circus with a pitchin 'bronc'," and foot-races and wrestling-matches.”

  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

• “I did not know this particular "bronc," and while tightening the girths was all the while remembering a proverb which says, "He that would venture nothing must not get on horseback.”

  Janey Canuck in the West

• “Say, I seen him ride Cyclone once and get first money for ridin 'the worst buckin' bronc 'at the rodeo, over to Tucson.”

  Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail

• “Woman's kinda like a buckin 'bronc'sometimes the best-lookin' ones aren't worth throwing a saddle on. ”

  Wild Blood

• “There's Margot Case, who took time to chat with me one dreary rainy winter afternoon when I washed up in Seattle broke and jobless, and her book about bronc rider Bill Smith.”

  The Huffington Post: Ming Holden: Seattle Dispatch: The Richard Hugo House

• “At the time the Macchiaioli were painting, the butteri were enjoying their moment in the spotlight, having bested Buffalo Bill's Wild West show cowboys in an 1890 bronc-busting challenge before 20,000 spectators in Rome.”

  Forbes: The Other Tuscany

• “Juanita had returned to the ranch to look after the children, Ben Hughes happened to be in Sheridan on a Saturday to buy a new saddle after a bronc tore his old piece of leather to bits.”

  Simon & Schuster: Come Again No More

• “On the fourth circuit around the corral, Nitro crow-hopped three times and then shook loose like a saddle bronc at the Cheyenne Frontier Days.”

  Simon & Schuster: Come Again No More

• “The first man perhaps the only man to rope the black was Farron Blue, a wrangler and bronc buster out of Pocatello who had blown around the west like a tumbleweed, maybe because he had a bad habit of getting himself wanted by the wrong people.”

  Simon & Schuster: Come Again No More

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