first-beaten

Updated: May 29, 2025

There was nothing Frances of the ranges did not know about the cattle-raising business. And she was giving some attention to the new grain-raising ideas that had come into the Panhandle with the return of the first-beaten farming horde. For the Texas Panhandle has had its two farming booms. The first advance of the farmers into the ranges twenty-five years or more before had been a rank failure.

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