trail hands
Drive the herd
Trail hands are the cowboys or workers who drive cattle on long overland journeys, particularly during the era of American cattle drives in the 19th century.
The term evokes dusty trails, hard riding, and the rugged labor of moving herds across open country: The ranch hired extra trail hands for the drive to Kansas.
- cowboyMounted cattle herder
- wranglerLivestock handler on ranches
- droverOne who moves livestock
- rancherOne who raises livestock
- cattlemanOne who raises bovines
ranchhand · gaucho · cowpoke · vaquero · rider · saddle sore · chuckwagon · watering hole · herder · longhorn cattle · stockman · shepherds · night watch · teamsters · muleteers · ropers · rope trick · maverick
trail handscattle barons
Wealthy large-scale ranchers
trail boss · ranchers · cattlemen · homesteaders · stockmen
trail handssettlers
Those who establish homes
homesteaders · sodbusters · nesters · farmers · town dwellers
trail handscattle barons
Wealthy large-scale ranchers
land barons · capitalists · railroad magnates · bankers · landed gentry
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