trail bosses
Cattle drive commanders
Trail bosses is the plural of trail boss—the person in charge of a cattle drive.
The trail boss managed cowboys, planned routes, and made decisions about river crossings, grazing, and camp locations during the long overland journeys that moved livestock to railheads or new ranges.
The trail boss kept the herd moving despite the storm.
The term evokes the American Old West.
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- cattle driveMoving herd to market
- herdGrazing animals together
- head countNumber of individuals present
- stampedeFrenzied mass flight
cowboys · Old West · longhorns · Chisholm · roundup · cutting horse · chuck wagon · dusty · lariat · saddle · range · open range · frontier · prairie · mustangs · reins · campfire · night watch
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Ranch cattle workers
wranglers · drovers · greenhorns · trail hands · hired hands
trail bossesranchers
Livestock farm operators
cattle barons · stockmen · proprietors · homesteaders · sodbusters
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