They hunt, fish, tend cattle and till the ground.
Their roles on larger estates also included working in boiling houses and tending cattle.
As a youth, he spent much of his time tending cattle and working in their garden, while his mother ran a trading post.
He tended cattle well, could lift more than either of the other men, had a quicker laugh when an accident befell him.
He tended cattle as a boy, but showed an early aptitude for wood-carving.
These were men who plowed the prairie, tended cattle and ran small country stores.
I was out tending cattle on March 25.
How to hide in the heather while other men gather crops or tend cattle?
He tended cattle, planted gardens, and cultivated an apple orchard.
When you're tending cattle, you don't want the job to be exciting.