cattlemen
Bovine livestock raisers
Cattlemen are people who raise cattle, particularly on ranches in the American West.
The term evokes ranching culture and the beef industry: The cattlemen gathered for the annual livestock auction.
Cattlemen's associations advocate for ranchers' interests.
The singular cattleman exists but the plural dominates in actual usage.
Livestock transporters on foot
- cowboysRanch hands tending herds
- vaquerosHispanic livestock herders
- gauchosSouth American cattle herders
- wranglersLivestock handlers on ranches
cowhands · ranchers · graziers · pastoralists · trail bosses · buckaroos · cowpunchers · jackaroos
Bovine meat for eating
- herdGrazing animals together
- steerDirect movement or castrated bull
- heiferChildless female cattle
- bovineOf the cattle family
calving · breeding · branding · feedlot · stockyard · grazing · pasture · fodder
Livestock-raising estate
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- pasturelandLand for grazing animals
- acreageAmount of land owned
- corralsFenced livestock enclosures
roundup · fencing · windmill · bunkhouse · chuckwagon · waterholes · cattleguard · headgate
Those who establish homes
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
- territoriesAreas under jurisdiction
drovers
Livestock transporters on foot
- cowboysRanch hands tending herds
- vaquerosHispanic livestock herders
- gauchosSouth American cattle herders
wranglers · cowhands · ranchers · graziers · pastoralists · trail bosses · buckaroos · cowpunchers · jackaroos · outriders
beef
Bovine meat for eating
bovine · calving · breeding · branding · feedlot · stockyard · grazing · pasture · fodder · tagging
ranch
Livestock-raising estate
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- pasturelandLand for grazing animals
- acreageAmount of land owned
corrals · roundup · fencing · windmill · bunkhouse · chuckwagon · waterholes · cattleguard · headgate · range
stampede
Frenzied mass flight
- cookfireFire for preparing meals
- saddlesoreChafed from horseback
settlers
Those who establish homes
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
- Farm Groupsfarm bureau, farmers union, farm unions, grange, farming cooperative
- cattle ranchingbranding iron, branding irons, herd, herds, ranchers
- Outbackoutback, station, red sand, dust storm, drover
- cattle workerscowboys, cowhands, drovers, herders, wranglers
- WesternersArizonans, Californians, Coloradans, Nevadans, New Mexicans
- colonial figurescolonial figures, colonial officials, colonial administrators, colonial leaders, colonial governors
cattlemensheepmen
Raisers of woolly livestock
sheepherders · shepherds · swineherds · pig farmers · goatherds
cattlemenwheat farmers
Cultivators of cereal grains
farmers · sodbusters · tillers · cultivators · orchardists