timber-lands

Updated: June 22, 2025

She noted, too, that the whites and yellows of earth and rock had begun to shade to red and this she knew meant an approach to Arizona. Arizona, the wild, the lonely, the red desert, the green plateau Arizona with its thundering rivers, its unknown spaces, its pasture-lands and timber-lands, its wild horses, cowboys, outlaws, wolves and lions and savages!

Zane Grey - The Man of the Forest

For Dirty Fingers was a lawyer, a wilderness lawyer, a forest bencher, a legal strategist of the trail, of the river, of the great timber-lands. Stored away in his brain was every rule of equity and common law of the great North country. For his knowledge he went back two hundred years.

James Oliver Curwood - The Valley of Silent Men : A Story of the Three River Country

So you think I'm wholly selfish, do you, Despeaux?" "The water-power franchises of this state were grabbed away from the people years ago, like the timber-lands were, by first-comers, and the state got nothing! The waters belong to the people. The people have a right to realize on their property!

Holman Day - All-Wool Morrison

Many portions of meadow-land are used for dairy-herds, most of the hotels and resorts on and near Lake Tahoe having their own herds and meadows. Bands of beef-cattle are also pastured, together with large bands of sheep, the two kinds of stock often grazing in common, the cattle using the meadows and the sheep the ridges and timber-lands.

George Wharton James - The Lake of the Sky: Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

Your father and I have been over it in detail; we failed to agree, and that settles it. As a matter of fact, I am not in position to handle your logs with my limited rolling-stock, and that old hauling contract which I took over when I bought the mills, timber-lands, and logging railroad from the late Mr.

Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne - The Valley of the Giants

I saw a slow kindling up in Saul's eyes, but an instant later it had gone down, and he said, looking into mine, "Do you really and truly wish this, Lucy?" And Lucy answered, "I really and truly wish it, Saul." We came hither with the violets and bluebirds. My wigwam points to the sky. We have roamed on the prairies, and wandered in the timber-lands.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator