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• n  a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

• Textbooks are unable to contain the man who was a civil war unto himself: Eastern aristocrat and Western cowpuncher, intellectual and pugilist, reformer and clubhouse Republican .
• First he became a waiter, then a cowpuncher, then a successful businessman.
• To Noel DavisMormon, cowpuncher, high in his class at Annapolis, intrepid minelayer and minesweeper in the North Sea, Harvard law student, with a pretty wife and a little son .

• cowboy
• puncher
• cowman
• cattleman
• cowpoke
• cowhand
• cowherd

Quotes

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• Jim Shoulders in New York Times
  One spot showed Shoulders and Martin sidling up to a bar, wearing cowboy hats, with Shoulders saying, "I'll teach Billy to be a cowpuncher as long as he don't practice on my cows."