Cattle-buyer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.

    "It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills."

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"It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills."

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