grazing-farms

Updated: June 24, 2025

This was reasonable enough; and we finally agreed to retain two of the horses, taking the postmaster's for a third. The region we now traversed was almost a wilderness. There were grazing-farms in the valley, with a few fields of oats or barley; but these soon ceased, and an interminable forest enclosed us.

Bayard Taylor - Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland

There were a dozen detailed for this first race, young men of all classes, who were, or fancied themselves, "crack" riders. There were rancheros in their picturesque attire, smart arrieros, miners from the hills, townsmen, hacendados of the valley, vaqueros from the grazing-farms, and ciboleros, whose home is for the most part on the wide prairies.

Mayne Reid - The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico