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- noun Alternative spelling of
cattle drive .
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A self-described “midlist author,” McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning cattle-drive saga Lonesome Dove 1985, although he has written better novels and worse—thirty in all.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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A self-described “midlist author,” McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning cattle-drive saga Lonesome Dove 1985, although he has written better novels and worse—thirty in all.
Literary Life 2010
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The cattle-drive northward from Texas between the years 1866 and 1885 was approximately as follows:
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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Men there working on schedule started the cattle-drive.
The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925
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Stone-fishing is in reality a fish - drive, similar in principle to a rabbit-drive or a cattle-drive, though in the latter affairs drivers and driven operate in the same medium, while in the fish-drive the men must be in the air to breathe and the fish are driven through the water.
Chapter 13 1913
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Stone-fishing is in reality a fish - drive, similar in principle to a rabbit-drive or a cattle-drive, though in the latter affairs drivers and driven operate in the same medium, while in the fish-drive the men must be in the air to breathe and the fish are driven through the water.
Chapter 13 1911
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On the other side of the mill-pond was an open place called the Cross, because it was three - quarters of one, two lanes and a cattle-drive meeting there.
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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Nylon, Pantyhose and Horses is my account of an 85 mile cattle-drive that took me from Ashcroft to Kamloops, British Columbia way back in 1994.
BC Bloggers Manic Tapas 2010
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Nylon, Pantyhose and Horses is my account of an 85 mile cattle-drive that took me from Ashcroft to Kamloops, British Columbia way back in 1994.
BC Bloggers 2010
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Time to lasso this geriatric legislator and cattle-drive her to the local Panda Express, where we shall force feed her orange chicken and chow mein until she pukes and cries Charlie!
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