conquestadors

Updated: May 1, 2025

Now the few remaining cattlemen kept their pastures fenced, and began to think of raising other feed than river-bottom hay. The cohorts of agriculturists were advancing; the cattlemen were falling back. The ancient staked plains of the Spanish conquestadors were likely to become waving wheat fields and smiling orchards.

Amy Bell Marlowe - Frances of the Ranges: The Old Ranchman's Treasure