sheep-man

For some reason I feel very alienated by modern non-Western literature a lot of the time, but that sheep-man book you were talking about sounded really neat.

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For a sheep-man to talk to himself is considered a bad sign; but the present hermit had no chance to go farther in this course.

The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart

When shearing-time came she went to a sheep-man and told him she would help cook for his men one week if he would have her sheep sheared with his.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

The Edmonsons had only one child, a daughter, who was to have married a man whom her parents objected to solely because he was a sheep-man, while their sympathies were with the cattle-men, although they owned only a small bunch.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Nort and Dick went on into town again after a load of grub came, to see if they could pick up that sheep-man Hawkins told us about, and to grab me off a pony.

The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers Willard F. Baker

With this sound ringing in his ears, and daily becoming more and more insufferable from monotony and increase, the sheep-man rides out in the morning among his Mexicans, and returns to camp at night aweary, with haply a couple of little ones abandoned by their mothers in his arms, to be brought up on that _pis-aller_ of infancy, -- and, alas! occasionally of age, -- the bottle.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Johnny had a dollar which a sheep-man had given him for taking care of a sore-footed dog.

Letters on an Elk Hunt Elinore Pruitt Stewart

You see, the jury is bound to be made up of cow-men an 'ranchers with a sheep-man or two mixed in.

The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

Never had any trouble with the sheep outfits -- but just the same, there ain't a sheep-man south of the river that would care to try to put anything over on him -- nor no one else, neither.

Prairie Flowers 1921

I'm a common cowpuncher, just as you say -- but, at that, I don't take off my hat to any sheep-man!

Prairie Flowers 1921