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Rancher

noun

A person who owns or operates a ranch.

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"Rancher" Quotes from Famous Books

... to say on the trip—perhaps for the reason that speech would have been difficult on account of the monopolizing of the conversation by the other passengers. These included two women from White Lodge, one rancher from Antelope Mesa, and two drummers who were going to call on White Lodge merchants. The conversation was unusually brisk and ran ...

— Mystery Ranch • Arthur Chapman

... 'Old Homestead' kind, dear. It's the fault of my Eastern bringing up. I should have said a 'rancher.' He comes from somewhere near the Rockies, and I believe he grows wheat and hay and cattle and—oh, ...

— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm

... after a tremendous legal battle, conducted with the relishing solemnity with which Americans like to take their fooling, it was decided to call in an expert on brands, and a certain California rancher ten ...

— Gold • Stewart White

... You found a place for Rancher's waiter in the volunteer corps. Surprised as you were at the interest I expressed in him, you honored my first request and said nothing. Would you have shown the same anxious eagerness if you had known why I whispered those few words to him from the carriage door? Why I could neither rest nor sleep ...

— The Filigree Ball • Anna Katharine Green

... one I could never understand, though I have spent some time, in this province. Every now and then it seems that the rancher must leave his clearing and wander off into the bush. As you admitted, he generally comes home dressed in rags, and very seldom brings anything with him. Why do ...

— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss

Words linked to "Rancher" : grazier, sodbuster, husbandman, ranch, granger, farmer