rancheroes

The rancheroes seemed very much excited all the time, and rode a little way down the hill, that they might better see what was going on.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

When he found that he could make no head against the two rancheroes, who were endeavouring to stop him, he turned round in a fit of fury and endeavoured to overtake them.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

We learned from the rancheroes that only a few weeks before there existed on the spot a pretty hamlet, with a contented and happy population of some fifty persons or so.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

I wondered what had become of the rancheroes; I did not see them.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"The rancheroes say that the bear's cave is not far off from here," observed one of our English friends.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The moment the lance was withdrawn, he sprung up with his weapon in his hand, ready to fight on; but one of the rancheroes threw his lasso over his shoulders, and, with a jerk which, had it been round his neck, would have dislocated it, brought him again to the ground.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

After galloping along the valley for a quarter of a mile or so, the two other rancheroes darted out from behind a rock, and whirling their lassoes round their heads, cast them with unerring aim over the shoulders of the bear, and then galloped away from him.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

At that moment, when I thought that it was all up with him, I heard a loud _switch_, as if something were passing rapidly through the air, and two of the rancheroes darted out from behind a cliff, having thrown their lassoes over the bear's head and shoulders.

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Each of the young rancheroes had a long coil of rope round his saddle-bow, to which one end was fastened -- at the other was a running loop.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The appearance the young rancheroes presented on horseback was very picturesque.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847