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Examples
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She is called a good "stampeder," has a pleasant, smiling face, but is usually designated "notorious."
A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan
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When this thought came to him, he began to hope that he would not be selected; but a man who had made a name as captain of a college football eleven, as a president of an athletic club, as a dog-musher and a stampeder in the Yukon, and, moreover, who possessed such shoulders as he, had no right to avoid the honour.
Trust 2010
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If you shout “fire” in the theater and a man is trampled by another, who would the jury likely find to be the proximate cause of the battery or what have you? the stampeder or you?
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His father was a stampeder, and Berton himself was born in the Yukon.
what i'm reading 2007
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Harold Elwell Bannister was an old-time Alaskan, a stampeder who had stayed on after the gold rush to found a chain of grocery stores and subsequently to guide the footsteps of first territorial and then state governors.
A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003
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Runaway roarer, freighted with human souls, stampeder of policemen and horses - it was Uncle Sid with his mighty hands who mastered its mad career.
Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959
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Being an old mail carrier and stampeder of experience in this country, he ought to know how to travel, and, being a Norwegian, he is well used to the snow and the cold.
A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan
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He drove with the killing cruelty of a stampeder, and they loved him.
Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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No. Wal, I'm woodsman, river-man; I ain't dam 'stampeder.
The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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"Lay off that 'squaring' stuff," cautioned a renegade crook, disguised by a suit of mackinaws and a week's growth of beard into the likeness of a stampeder.
The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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