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Definition of Ranches
1. ranch [v] - See also: ranch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranches
Literary usage of Ranches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising by United States Attorney-General (1866)
"... OF THE JIMENO AND COLUS ranches. 1. The Jimeno grant, being the elder in point
of time, is entitled to a preference in location. 2. ..."
2. Textiles by Paul Henry Nystrom (1916)
"The sheep ranches require special labor, sheep herders, camp tenders, ...
Possibilities of loss on sheep ranches.—There is always possibility of great loss ..."
3. Daily Geography Practice by Leland Graham, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Sandi Johnson (2004)
"Cattle ranches in Texas Introducing the Map Explain to students that people depend on
... Talk about how cattle ranches take up a lot of the land in Texas. ..."
4. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"Of the latter number 700 lived at Monterey, 550 at the ranches of the district,
250 at and about Branciforte, 50 at San Juan, and 50 at all the other ..."
5. The Beef Bonanza: Or, How to Get Rich on the Plains. Being a Description of by James Sanks Brisbin (1881)
"Where Sheep can be best Raised—Who the Sheep-Owners of the Plains are—How the
ranches are managed—Letters from Sheep-Raisers. To describe correctly the ..."
6. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the by Eusebio Francisco Kino, Herbert Eugene Bolton (1919)
"Another temporal means which our Lord gives us for the promotion of these new
conquests are the plentiful ranches which are already stocked with cattle, ..."
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