sage-bush

From Hunter's, in Nevada, to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, stretches the long space of unfinished work, ten hundred and fifty-four miles of railroad line, with three sharp crests and a gently rolling intra-mountain desert, where the dew never falls, where the twilight lingers long into the evening, and the eye wearies of the wastes of sage-bush, and the tracts of scant grass between arid breadths of dazzling white alkaline sand.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

Going west, you pass through what seems an endless waste of sage-bush and sand.

Love's Final Victory Horatio

Leaving at noon in procession, with three ambulances and as many army wagons, scaling the bluffs, bare of everything like trees or shrubs, and only covered with grass and wild flowers, and now and then sage-bush and prickly-pear cactus, which are very troublesome to the horses 'feet.

Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

It was a vast sandy plain, thinly dotted with sage-bush and other stunted shrubs.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

Mormons had encamped, and apparently halted a day, for more than ordinary pains had been taken to make their camp comfortable, and several piles of twigs, of the sage-bush and rushes, remained, of which they had made beds.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

And do you recall the day we trailed across the Yuma deserts, and the sun beat into our skulls, and the dry, brittle hills looked like papier-mache, and the grey sage-bush ran off into the rise of the hills; and then came sunset and the hard, dry mountains grew filmy, like gauze veils of many colours, and melted and glowed and faded to slate blue, and the stars came out?

Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909

The loosened golden hair streamed back on the wind like hands of despair wildly clutching for help, and the jaunty green riding cap was snatched by the breeze and hung upon a sage-bush not fifty feet from the cabin gate, but the pony rushed on with the frightened girl still clinging to the saddle.

The Man of the Desert Grace Livingston Hill 1906

As he walked along by the fence he caught sight of a small dark object hanging on a sage-bush a short distance from the front of his house.

The Man of the Desert Grace Livingston Hill 1906

It was then that Bud, flying frantically from one spot to another, got down upon his knees behind a sage-bush when Gardley was not looking and mumbled a rough, hasty prayer for help.

A Voice in the Wilderness Grace Livingston Hill 1906

What a revelation it must be to one used to the barren alkali deserts of Wyoming, where, nothing grew but sage-bush and cacti!

The Honorable Percival Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906