Word: cattleman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scattered clientele well supplied with learned but simple reports. Traveling by car, train and horse, he became a familiar figure in the barns and ranch houses of Idaho, and wherever he went, his rambling advice was awaited and welcomed almost with awe. "You'd think," says one cattleman, "that he wasn't listening to you at all. And then after a while, Riney would say something. Then he'd start for the door, stop there and say something else, then pick up his hat and say something else-and finally, all the time fixing...
...outsized only by his own voice. As the salaried head of the area's Boy Scout Council, and as a businessman (he is a member of 17 boards of directors), part-time lawyer, landlord (he has an interest in a Caracas, Venezuela apartment project), farmer and cattleman (he owns 5,000 acres in Missouri and Oklahoma), educator (he was president of Missouri Valley College at Marshall), civic leader and public speaker (some 200 speeches a year at fees ranging up from $1,000). Bartle is all over the place. Last week Kansas citizens bowed to the inescapable: they elected...
...section of the Andes around San Cristóbal. Marcos Pérez Jiménez comes from nearby Michelena, a tiny settlement founded by one of his ancestors, where he was born on April 25, 1914. His father, 70 years old at the time, was a small-time cattleman and coffee planter, his mother a schoolteacher from Colombia...
...four cows when he was eight and called Dave his "partner"); later he learned to rope, brand and vaccinate cattle. Eyeing his older brothers practicing their violin and piano, Dave protested against his own music lessons: "Ma, you've got two musicians; I want to be a cattleman...
Harrell set up teams to handle all claims, had every cattleman come to his office to settle on a figure. To each, Harrell offered a mutually acceptable price for every cow or steer lost, signed and handed over each check personally. One rancher filed a claim for 1,500 head, walked out with a check for $57,000. A widow, whose herd had been wiped out, got enough for a new herd...