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"Ranching" Quotes from Famous Books

... in what is a great ranching district, cattle and horses to run at large through the whole winter. Through the mountain passes come at times dry winds from the Pacific coast, which lick up the snow in a few hours. These winds are known as Chinook winds. While elevating ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... Horse and cattle ranching has appealed to the Englishman from the first, and as great fortunes have been realized from it in Canada as in Argentina. However, the day of unfenced pasture ground is past; and in reselling ranches for farms, many English investors have multiplied ...

— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... sore laugh—"and gave my orderly about a dozen suits of ordinary clothes. The only thing I kept was my sword. I had ten swords hung on my walls, used by ten generations in succession—I couldn't give that up. ... An old chum was going out ranching to the wildest part of California. He asked me to come with him, and I jumped at it. I wanted to get out of the country—away from it all. If I'd seen the regiment riding through the streets, I should have gone mad! ... We ...

— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... was ten years old, my family had abandoned ranching and gone to live in the city. And here, at ten, I began on the streets as a newsboy. One of the reasons for this was that we needed the money. Another reason was that I needed the exercise. I had found my way to the free public library, ...

— John Barleycorn • Jack London

Words linked to "Ranching" : roundup, farming, ranch, husbandry, agriculture