cattle rustlers
Ranch herd stealers
Cattle rustlers are people who steal livestock, particularly cattle.
The term evokes the American frontier, where rustling was a serious crime often punished by hanging.
Modern cattle rustling still occurs, though it now typically involves trucks rather than horseback: The rancher suspected cattle rustlers when he found the fence cut and thirty head missing.
- outlawsFugitives from justice
- banditsArmed robbers, often roving
- thievesThose who commit larceny
- horse thievesThose who steal steeds
- open rangeUnfenced public grazing land
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- cattle driveChisholm Trail, chuck wagon, cowboy, drover, herd
- raidersraiders, marauders, pillagers, plunderers, looters
- roguesrogue, rogues, scoundrel, scoundrels, rascal
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Livestock transporters on foot
cattle drivers · cattle ranchers · cowboys · cattlemen · trail hands
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Official crime fighters
sheriffs · ranchers · marshals · cattle guards · stockgrowers
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