Large ranches have many employees. A ranch hand would be someone who works on different daily tasks usually related to keeping the ranch functioning. They could be real cowboys that manage the livestock or degreed professionals with expertise related to whatever the ranch produces. Some large ranches will have family houses included with the job.
Lennie and George's new job was at a ranch in Soledad, California where they worked as ranch hands. The company that provided their job was not specifically mentioned in the book "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck.
Depending on the amount of hired hands on the ranch, it is mostly the hired hands' job to look after the cattle, but the rancher himself is also responsible for most of the responsibilities that comes with the ranch including the cattle and the rangeland the cattle are being raised on. Some ranches are only run by the rancher and his wife, so the responsibilities of looking after the cattle fall on these two person's shoulders.
Either farm hands, cowboys, or ranch hands
Work is seasonal -
No, Lennie and George did not buck barley. They were fictional characters from John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men" who worked as ranch hands.
Slim is a character in John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men." He is the skilled mule driver on the ranch and is respected by the other workers for his wisdom and strength. Slim also serves as a kind of mediator and authority figure among the ranch hands.
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One of the ranch hands
The jobs these men carried out were seasonal. They would be needed for doing a certain job at one ranch, and when they have completed this job, the ranch no longer needs these men, so they move on.
In a garden shed
Dally worked as a ranch hand at the Slash J ranch.