chuckline

Updated: June 24, 2025

"Well, three days before Christmas, just when things were looking gloomiest, there drifted up from the Cheyenne country one of the old timers. None of them had seen him in four years, though he had worked on that range before, and with the exception of myself, they all knew him. He was riding the chuckline all right, but Miller gave him a welcome, as he was the real thing.

Andy Adams - The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days