What is "pecos"

Usage examples of "pecos".

Venus flytrap genes had turned this Pecos Pete tall-tale vaporware into grisly functionality.

Miller suspected that the Pecos country foci of bubonic plague had been found.

Carmen came off the highway just short of Pecos and speared south on a small county road that led down into total emptiness.

The Coyanosa Draw was a watercourse with a bed wide enough to carry the runoff from the Davis Mountains to the Pecos River, which took it to the Rio Grande all the way down on the border with Mexico.

A makeshift laboratory was set up at the Pecos Fish Hatchery two miles upstream from the village to make preliminary examinations of the animals being snared in the spreading network of traps.

From Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos to El Paso del Norte, from Fort Davis to Ojinaga or Lajitas.

IN FOUR DAYS' riding he crossed the Pecos at Iraan Texas and rode up out of the river breaks where the pumpjacks in the Yates Field ranged against the skyline rose and dipped like mechanical birds.

Driving into town along Old Pecos Trail, passing the adobe-walled Santa Fe Woman's Club on the left, approaching the pueblo-style Baptist church on the right, he reached the crest of the hill, saw the jogging shoes on the yellow median line, and steered his police car onto the dirt shoulder of the road.

Although Jim Lloyd riding left drag would eat dust during the westward leg of the journey, when the trail turned north, as it did once the Pecos was reached, the prevailing northwest wind would throw the greater burden on Bufe Coker riding right drag.

Jim Lloyd and Ragland had been helping at drag, and when they saw a skirmish developing on the north side of the Pecos, they drove their horses into the river, with Ragland yelling, “Here we come!

Again and again cowboys recalled Old Rags “tryin’ to jump the Pecos and fallin’ flat on his ass,” and Ragland protested that if he had had a fair run at the river he could have jumped it .