dust-encumbered

Updated: May 28, 2025

It seemed a veritable rainbow realm of the sun. At first only the beauty stirred Hare he saw the copper belt close under the cliffs, the white beds of alkali and washes of silt farther out, the wind-ploughed canyons and dust-encumbered ridges ranging west and east, the scalloped slopes of the flat tableland rising low, the tips of volcanic peaks leading the eye beyond to veils and vapors hovering over blue clefts and dim line of level lanes, and so on, and on, out to the vast unknown.

Zane Grey - Heritage of the Desert