horse wrangler

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person having charge of a bunch of saddle horses, pack horses, etc.

See: wrangler(def. 1)

Quotations

1916

Here horses cost $3 a day each, the wages of a guide are $7.50 a day and board, a packer who is also the horse-wrangler, must be hired at $5 a day.

1963

Commonly . . . these tasks had to be performed by the horse wranglers.