pine-barren

The distance is eighteen miles, through an unbroken pine-barren, (one opening only, at Fort Searle, twelve miles out,) and an under-growth of palmettos of just sufficient height for

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

Several days the war-party marched through a pine-barren region.

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

South Carolina coast, show a like analysis except for a somewhat larger proportion of non-slaveholders and very small slaveholders, who were, of course, located mostly in the towns and on the sandy stretches of pine-barren.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

When morning came we found ourselves running northwest through a poor, pine-barren country that strongly resembled that we had traversed in coming to Savannah.

Andersonville — Volume 3 John McElroy 1887

When morning came we found ourselves running northwest through a poor, pine-barren country that strongly resembled that we had traversed in coming to Savannah.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

Our course was an easterly one, through a roadless, flat, sandy pine-barren, with an occasional thicket and swamp.

Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War George Washington Cable 1884

It was toward the end of February; a clear afternoon drawing toward sunset; and all the flat, sad country was covered with a drifting red glow that turned the field of broom-grass into a sea of gold; that lighted up the black wall of pine-barren, and shot, here and there, long shafts of light into the sombre depths of the cypress swamp.

Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878

On the other two sides the old fields ended in a solid black wall of pine-barren.

Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878

Let Mr. Wilson, his brothers, and Green take your dog and search in the pine-barren.

Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878

Our little apology for a dwelling was perched on the top of a hill, overlooking in several directions hundreds of leagues of pine-barren; there were, as yet, neither garden nor enclosure near it, and a wilder, more desolate, and savage-looking home, could hardly have been seen east of the great prairies.

The Poems of Henry Timrod. 1872