cowpony

No sooner did the loop twirl through the air than the trained cowpony braced itself backward.

The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure Lizette M. Edholm

Cantonment, and it was mid-afternoon before he was able to put spurs to his smart little cowpony and start on the long ride to Elkhorn.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

He rushed about the next turn of the cliff and saw that the race had been in vain -- the Great Enemy was spurring his reeling cowpony into the mouth of the Little Smoky gap!

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

Far away the grey mare was neighing plaintively and the scared cowpony trailed in the distance wondering why these free creatures should come so close to man, the enslaver; but to Alcatraz the herd was no more than a growth of trees; nothing existed under the sky saving that hand ceaselessly outstretched towards him, and the steady murmur of the voice.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

His eye was too keen in the calculation of distances and relative speeds not to realize that the cowpony would beat him to the goal, yet he kept up his furious pace even when Perris had checked his horse to a trot.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

Already the bay was beginning to feel the run, and Marianne reluctantly drew down to the long lope which is the favorite gait of the cowpony.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

Ordinarily he would have set about preparing supper before the coming of the dark, but now he watered and saddled his cowpony, a durable little buckskin, and with a touch of the spurs sent him at a pitching gallop down the slope.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

He would have looked, instead, to his cowpony which was now cantering away towards liberty in the rear of the flying squadron of mares.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

Out of the corner of his reddening eye, as he gained swift impetus after his swerve, he saw the cowpony wheel, falter, and then burst across in pursuit to close the gap.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

Active as a cat though it was, the cowpony found the steep pass with its loose rubble hard going.

Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912