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ranchland

n. Land used for ranching, or raising livestock

Usage examples of "ranchland".

Bought myself a couple of counties of ranchland on Peggys Planet, got married, raised a family, died .

At the turn of the century, South Rockingham was all ranchland, flat fields planted to beans and walnuts, harvested by itinerant crews who traveled with steam engines, cookhouses, and bedroll wagons.

This part of town seemed to be ranchland, mixed with large undeveloped tracts that might have been farmed at one point.

The Atascadero Minimum Security Correctional Facility was a village of brown brick buildings set in the broad open expanse of what used to be almond groves in the arid ranchland south of Paso Robles.

His gaze drifted over the ranchland, land he had been born and raised on.

A ranger might not have to fight Indians or Mexican guerrillas, but since Texas had plenty of ranchland left, a ranger had to be a skilled horseman in case he was called upon to track down modern-day rustlers.

Gorgeous ranchland and plenty of country-club communities dotted the west end of the Valley.

The ranch and the prime Wyoming ranchland were his life, his heritage, and his future.

On either side of the interstate, ranchland melted into the blackened horizon.

BORN, CALDER BRED by JANET DAILEY BOOK JACKET INFORMATION The New York Times Bestselling Author of CALDER PRIDE Ty Calder was a stranger to the mighty empire that was his legacy--the ranchlands that rose to meet the Montana skies.

Either that, or they had been driven in the opposite direction, into the ranchlands of the broad Willamette Valley.

I was three months getting the background material for this book and from the cities to the ranchlands and up into the high Rockies I received nothing but kindness and much help.

The sound of the wheels was lost in the drift of powdery snow that whirled past the windshield and ahead of me the ranchlands rolled away to the horizon.

I just refused to die down there in Calgary with the level ground of the ranchlands spreading out round me and the dust blowing through the streets.

Where we crossed into the state, the highway was potholed and the vast ranchlands on either side had gone feral and dry in the wake of the retreating Oglalla Aquifer.