He thinks they're cattle thieves, but maybe they're worse than that.
The Shadow did not care to be mistaken for either a cattle thief or a ghost.
You could hang a cattle thief back in those days, but the trouble was you had to catch him at it.
And you'll spend all your time passing laws against cattle thieves.
And right at the end of my career, here I am accused of being a cattle thief".
There had been cattle thieves in the camp, but they had left before the soldiers arrived.
If the whites had asked him, he would have delivered the cattle thieves to them.
There had been a rash of incidents with Indian marauders and cattle thieves.
Rob Roy was in reality a minor figure, known best as a cattle thief.
He develops from a cattle thief into a rancher and an oil baron.