stockriderEtymologyFrom stock + rider.nounA cowboy.“1907? Harold Bindloss, The Mistress of Bonaventure, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, https://archive.org/details/mistressofbonave00bindrich There is a similarity between the very old and the very new, and ancient poets perhaps best portray the primitive, sometimes heroic, life of effort the modern stockrider and plowman lead on the prairie.”