Sage-brush

He resolved to take it through, thinking it would never do to destroy an animal of so much pluck, and named it "Sage-brush."

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

Sage-brush stretched limitless, and the dull green of each bush, powdered with dust, made a grayer blotch on the pale shifting soil, that every chance zephyr lifted in swirls and scattered like ashes.

The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

Cottonwood root, an 'the Mountain Injuns use Sage-brush root.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

I'm responsible for him -- Sage-brush, you will collect at the door sech articles of hardware as these gentlemen has in their belts -- I deputize you.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

When Lyman, the old foreman of the Sweetwater resigned, Jack Payson promoted Sage-brush, although next to Bud Lane he was at the time the youngest man in the outfit.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

"What's that?" asked Sage-brush, grabbing his revolver.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

"Has the Sky Pilot got here yet?" asked Sage-brush.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

"We'll hog-tie you and sit on your head," laughed Sage-brush, as the guests entered the house.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

The absence of Jack Payson and the failure of the minister to arrive aroused the suspicions of Sage-brush.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

Polly was saved from having to answer by Sage-brush galloping up to the wagon.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894