buckarette

plural buckarettes

1. uncommonA female buckaroo.

   Hardly anything can shatter the daydreams of the buckaroo or buckarette like an old stubborn school horse with sides like iron.

   1991, Gwynne Spencer, Places to go with children in the Southwest, Chronicle Books Llc, →ISBN

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   Once sound came to Westerns, only the occasional buckarette made an appearance. In 1936, the lovely blonde Jean Arthur played a vivacious Calamity Jane in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman.

   2002, Holly George-Warren, How Hollywood Invented the Wild West: Featuring The Real West, Campfire Melodies, Matinee Idols, Four Legged Friends, Cowgirls & Lone Guns, Readers Digest, →ISBN