bull-whacker

Nor was it long, catching their spirit, ere she was singing to them and teaching them quaint songs of early days which she had herself learned as a little girl from Cady -- Cady, the saloonkeeper, pioneer, and ax-cavalryman, who had been a bull-whacker on the Salt Intake Trail in the days before the railroad.

CHAPTER VIII 2010

I joined the Force, I ran across a bull-whacker on the Whoop Up trail, and he told me that the Double R had closed out.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

I know nearly every bull-whacker that freights out of Benton, and they're a pretty white bunch.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Nor was it long, catching their spirit, ere she was singing to them and teaching them quaint songs of early days which she had herself learned as a little girl from Cady -- Cady, the saloonkeeper, pioneer, and ax-cavalryman, who had been a bull-whacker on the Salt Intake Trail in the days before the railroad.

Chapter 8 1913

And you don't have to turn bull-whacker or mule-skinner either.

Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

And in the vernacular I was a "mule-whacker" or even "mule-skinner" rather than a "bull-whacker," if there is any appreciable difference in rôle.

Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

"I'm glad you have let me be your friend, a hard-shelled bull-whacker like me."

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

"Do you need the defense of a bull-whacker of the plains against these things?"

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

But even in our best clothes, saved for the display at the end of the trail, we were uncouth compared to this young gentleman, and our tanned faces and hard brown hands bespoke the rough bull-whacker of the plains.

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

Limber Jim called for another drink and, with his cigar between his teeth, cracked his long bull-whacker whip.

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899