Oak grove

Usage examples of encinal.

Lance Lovelace located a ranch a few miles south of the Nueces River, and, from the cooing of the doves in the encinal, named it Las Palomas.

The feeding grounds lay distant, extending from the encinal ridges on the Las Palomas lands to live-oak groves a hundred miles to the southward.

We only have a sweet mast about every three or four years in the encinal, but it always brings the wild pigeons.

There had been a heavy mast that year, and in the encinal ridges to the east wild turkeys were reported plentiful.

Dan Happersett knew the camping spot, so I went with him, and together we took a big circle through the encinal, keeping alert for game signs.

Soon a flock of fully a hundred wild turkeys came running out of the encinal on the opposite side and started across to our ridge.

The middle of June passed without a drop of rain, but on the morning of the twentieth, after working all night, as Pasquale Arispe and I were drawing water from a well on the border of the encinal I felt a breeze spring up, that started the windmill.

Don Lance wanted to build it over in the encinal, with twice as nice a site right here in the rancho.

To the question if he was in the ranch at present, fortune favored me, as Fidel and nearly all the regular vaqueros were cutting timbers in the encinal that day with which to build new corrals at one of the outlying tanks.

By noon the quarry was so cluttered with blocks that I ordered half the help to take axes and go to the encinal to cut dry oak wood for burning the lime.

From the ranch we rode for the encinal ridges and sandy lands to the southeast, where the fallow-weed still throve in rank profusion, and where our heaviest steers were liable to range.

We turned westward from the encinal at a gallop, passing about midway between Santa Maria and the home ranch.

The sleepy old ranch cosily nestled among the encinal oaks revived a hundred memories, some sad, some happy, many of which have returned in retrospect during lonely hours since.

Seems that over near Encinal, few miles east of the town on State Forty-four, there was a couple named Larker.

She moved into Encinal, and I think she stays with her mother and takes care of her.