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Recent Examples of stockmanHouston Tye Hinton, resident stockman at the Anchor 7 Cattle Growers Association, is winding down after a long day of branding cattle.—Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025 The larger piece found its way to the Esperance Museum, but the smaller piece remained undiscovered until the curious stockman uncovered it.—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023 In addition to being a pilot, Rhiley worked as a stockman, per The Guardian.—Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023 The hill where the breach happened was a landmark to locals and used to be a popular destination for hayrides, said Bill Pannbacker, a farmer and stockman.—John Hanna, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022 Just as Darwin cultivated stockmen and pigeon breeders for their familiarity with the mysterious laws of inheritance, biologists interested in rattlesnakes have beaten a path to Martin’s door.—Thomas Palmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Set in Alice Springs, Australia, in 1929, the movie tracks the fate of Sam (a fine Hamilton Morris), an Aboriginal stockman forced to flee after killing a white farmer in self-defense.—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018 The Oregon Badlands are home to ancient Native American petroglyphs, which pop up on weathered rocks, as well as remnants of white settlement, like an old stockman’s shelter and a fenced-off cistern on the side of the trail.—OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
Its namesake, cattleman Oliver Loving, was shot by a band of raiders during a cattle drive in 1866, and died of shock a few days later after a doctor didn’t amputate his gangrenous arm.
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Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
The actors tells the stories of the deceased, including cattleman and 6666 ranch owner Samuel Burk Burnett, and the city’s first Black policeman, Hagar Tucker.
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Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Sep. 2025
Fighting the bill felt like too much for Silva and her husband to handle while parenting a growing number of kids, one of them severely disabled, and working — she as a preschool teacher and he as a rancher.
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Rae Ellen Bichell,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
The series stars Josh Duhamel as Staten Kirkland, legacy rancher, alongside Kelly’s Quinn, talented pianist and owner of a lavender farm and Gracie’s Dance Hall.
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