cotton-wooded

Updated: May 6, 2025

Our caboose trundled on to Billings along the shingly cotton-wooded Yellowstone; and as the plains and bluffs and the distant snow began to grow well known, even to me, we turned to our baggage that was to come off, since camp would begin in the morning.

Owen Wister - The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains