bottomland

Updated: June 10, 2025

Such nights were not pleasant, nor were the thoughts that caused them. From where they were camped upon a ridge which bounded a broad coulee on the east, he could look down upon the Stevens ranch nestling in the bottomland, the house half hidden among the cottonwoods. Through the last hours of the afternoon he watched it hungrily.

B. M. Bower - The Lure of the Dim Trails