river-bottoms

A sallow-faced parson from the river-bottoms remarked: "Jasper Very has been through many trying experiences, and I am going to ask him to tell us how he conquered that cantankerous woman by tact and muscles."

The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick

Every vegetable that has been tried in the loam of the river-bottoms succeeds perfectly.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

The Côte begins and the plain ends; the hillsides rise and the river-bottoms dwindle away in the distance: such is the feeling that one experiences as he climbs these vine-clad slopes from either the

The Automobilist Abroad

Along the river-bottoms and low grounds the sycamore is found as clean-limbed, tall and stately as elsewhere.

The California Birthday Book Various

Our green river-bottoms will give way to tracts of the color and seemingly of the sterility proper to an ash-heap.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

The river-bottoms and divides along the Lower Republican are peculiarly suited to the raising of farm-produce.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

People away down yonder in the river-bottoms see these peaks dim and far-shining, as though they cut through thick night; but we, up among them here, find the night wide, filled with a pale starlight that has softened for itself out of the darkness overhead a great space up towards heaven.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

The river-bottoms which traverse this region are thickly fringed with cotton-wood and elm timber; but it is a rare thing to encounter trees on the top of a divide.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

On the plains threaded by the road the pasture is good, save in the extremest drought of summer, when the great herds which usually feed at large on and between the river-bottoms are driven to the rich green grass in the high valleys of the Sierra, -- or ought to be: many cattle died along the San Joaquin last summer for want of this care.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

The small farmer needed the virgin soil of the new region, the alluvial river-bottoms, and the open prairies, for the cultivation of his crops and the grazing of his cattle; yet in the intervals between the tasks of farm life he scoured the wilderness in search of game and spied out new lands for future settlement.

The conquest of the old Southwest 1920