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A driver of an ox wagon or other heavy freight wagon especially in the early settlement of the West.

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  • A bullwhacker with his team of eight oxen pressed over the new layer of droppings, flourishing a long whip with skillful skyward sweeps.
  • One of the advantages to being a bullwhacker in these trains was that you got to meet all the new girls first, before they got to Salt Lake.
  • The wagon train pulled out of Leavenworth, all heavily freighted, each one carrying about six thousand pounds weight, and each also drawn by four yoke of oxen under charge of a...
  • When Billy returned home, after his first Indian-killing expedition, he carried with him the pay of a bullwhacker, and all of it he placed in his mother's hands, for the...
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