four-thousand-acre

Updated: May 26, 2025

Because the leaders of the numerous bands of wild horses that roamed over the country about Granite Mountain were always ambitious to gain recruits for their harems from their civilized neighbors, the freedom of the ranch horses was limited by the fences of a four-thousand-acre pasture.

Harold Bell Wright - When A Man's A Man

When they were still far in the distance they could see the high towers of the barns rising in the air. "We're nearly there," said Mrs. Evans; "here is the beginning to the cement fence that runs all the way around the four-thousand-acre farm." Mrs. Evans knew some of the people in charge of the farm and they had no difficulty gaining admittance.

Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey - The Camp Fire Girls at School : Or, The Wohelo Weavers