A bullwhacker with his team of eight oxen pressed over the new layer of droppings, flourishing a long whip with skillful skyward sweeps. From Wordnik.com. [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Whoa Haw Buck and Jerry Boy] Reference
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 driver, or "bullwhacker.". From Wordnik.com. [Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood] Reference
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 death of Mr. Cody had left the family in indigent circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood] Reference
She had learned to stand the gaff, in the phrase of the old bullwhacker who had brought her down from Rawlins. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Edge] Reference
Well ... actually, an actor portraying Wood helped bring to life the story of a bullwhacker who guided oxen-drawn freight wagons from Omaha to Denver in the days before the railroad. From Wordnik.com. [Fremont Tribune News Articles] Reference
The "bull-train" took its name from the fact that each of the thirty-five wagons making up a full train was hauled by several yoke of oxen, driven by one man, known as a bullwhacker. From Wordnik.com. [Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody]
The ` ` bull-train '' took its name from the fact that each of the thirty-five wagons making up a full train was hauled by several yoke of oxen, driven by one man, known as a bullwhacker. From Wordnik.com. [Last of the great scouts; the life story of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") as told by his sister, Helen Cody Wetmore] Reference
He had a long career as a trapper, bullwhacker, miner, Pony Express rider, wagon master, stagecoach driver, soldier, and as a prairie scout for the 5th Cavalry, for which he won the Congressional Medal of Honor. From Wordnik.com. [QCOnline Metro News] Reference
A genuine bullwhacker -- as all ox drivers were called in that day -- in conversation with a short, stout-built fellow with red hair and whiskers to match. From Wordnik.com. [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference
They stared at the spectacle, for it was always a sight to see a bullwhacker rambling into Deadwood; but there was something special about the woman who’d had more rumors spread about her than any other in the territory. From Wordnik.com. [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference
June was in charge of a bullwhacker. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Edge] Reference
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