1869 Apr. 338 The ranch owner presented a bill for her [sc. a mare's] keeping.
1940 Apr. 99/2 After twenty years' experience as a ranch owner..the stooped, weathered, old buzzard retired with a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
2002 A. Proulx (2003) vi. 53 On a wild hunch Hugh Dough asked the crime lab to compare them with the decorative conchas on the ranch owner's handmade chaps.