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  • Keith Webb Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com chairman and founder At the ranch he learned to clean stalls, to brand and castrate cattle, to install plumbing and to handle other ranch-hand tasks.

    Birth of a Salesman Richard L. Brandt 2011

  • Congress Ave.; 512-447-1413; allensboots.com is out of this world — rows and rows in countless styles and colors, from ranch-hand practical to a $2,500 pair made from gorgeously hand-tooled goatskin.

    Take Monday Off: Austin Kate Bolick 2011

  • Congress Ave.; 512-447-1413 is out of this world — rows and rows in countless styles and colors, from ranch-hand practical to a $2,500 pair made from gorgeously hand-tooled goatskin.

    An Urban City in a Countrified Setting 2011

  • At six the next morning, Lee had breakfast in the same coffee shop with a dozen other rodeoers, all but two of them Mex, the two _gringos _being lanky young ranch-hand types, probably down from Texas trying their luck at something better than bunkhouse wages.

    The Body Ricardo 2010

  • A member of the Daulton Boys—a black-dustered cowboy outfit—carefully conceals a metal weight in his ranch-hand glove.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • Some surmise that perhaps it was a ranch-hand that developed the dish, but this has not been proven.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Homesick Texan 2007

  • Some surmise that perhaps it was a ranch-hand that developed the dish, but this has not been proven.

    King Ranch Chicken | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • Blue is a 12-year-old girl with a wandering ranch-hand mom and an ability to see "lights" around people and animals, but she doesn't think of herself as a rancher.

    YA Wednesday: The Cowboy (and Cowgirl!) Edition Omnivoracious 2009

  • Blue is a 12-year-old girl with a wandering ranch-hand mom and an ability to see "lights" around people and animals, but she doesn't think of herself as a rancher.

    Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

  • In each episode of this series, four women from big cities travel to rural locales and try to win the heart of the cowboy of the week in a series of challenges including ranch-hand work, hay bailing, stable cleaning and cattle corralling.

    TiVo-Worthy TV for the Week of October 14, 2007 2007

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