cowpunching

After that short experience "cowpunching" days had come, and after several years in a subordinate position on Eldridge Gaylor's ranch he had at twenty-five been made foreman.

The Port of Adventure 1889

— Siringo decided rightly that cowpunching, the only field he knew, was untrodden.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

"Now, Rhoda!" exclaimed Nan, "don't squash all our beliefs about the cowpunching industry which we have learned from nursery books and movies."

Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr

"I know something about water rights, irrigation and title deeds to streams, even if I'm not much on the cowpunching," he added with

Cowboy Dave Frank V. Webster

He wasn't sick of cowpunching; he hadn't had half enough of it; he'd never have enough.

Winner Take All Larry Evans

The encounter with "Ben Butler" brought a new element into Roosevelt's cowpunching experience, and made what remained of the round-up somewhat of an ordeal.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

"He was not a purty rider," as one of his cowpunching friends expressed it, "but a hell of a good rider."

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

From cowpunching he had graduated into the tough little body of territorial rangers at the head of which was "Hurry Up" Millikan.

Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912

Merriam the big California millionaire who died East about ten years ago -- about the time I was first cowpunching on your ranch. "

The Port of Adventure 1889