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  • Wide boulevards led off El Camino past residences which sprawled over one to four fire-ant sand-burr infested acres of what had been worthless range-land.

    Clean Kill Alexander, Al 2000

  • Nomadic use of range-land, for instance, requires huge areas and may not look used.

    12. Site Selection, Planning and Shelter 1999

  • A man rode up one night and stayed with them until morning, after the open-handed custom of the range-land.

    The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

  • To be sure, Take-Notice had never mentioned having a daughter, but then, in the range-land, men don't go around yawping their personal affairs.

    The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905

  • Green to discover her presence, and the rumors which at first buzzed unheeded in the ears of the Happy Family, stung them at last to the point of investigation; so that on a Sunday -- the last Sunday before the Flying U wagons took again to the trailless range-land, Irish and

    The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905

  • Out in the lane which leads to the open range-land between wide reaches of rank, blue-joint meadows, a new sound met them -- the faint, insistent humming of millions of mosquitoes.

    The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B. M. Bower 1905

  • (If you ask the girls of the range-land, and believe their verdict, cowboys make the very best and most piquant of lovers.)

    The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B. M. Bower 1905

  • A man rode up one night and stayed with them until morning, after the open-handed custom of the range-land.

    The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905

  • It was the interval between beef-and calf-roundups, and the witchery of Indian Summer held the range-land in thrall.

    The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905

  • For on the range-land, unless one is in a mind to roll his bed and ride away, one does not question when the leader commands.

    The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905

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