Sentence examples for range cattle from inspiring English sources

Range cattle, the beginning of supermarket beef, live in these pastures year round, grazing on grasses like blue grama, buffalo grass, big and little bluestem.

Range cattle constituted a major source of income for Arizona from the 1860s until World War II, when large feedlots became prominent.

But by the late 1880s, with the decline of the range cattle industry, settlers moved in and fenced the Great Plains into family farms.

When I arrived, the shooting party was camped near Crutcher's Spring, so named for a dribble of water that sustains the few local range cattle and the feral mustangs in the hills.

With the development of railroads after the American Civil War (1861 65) and the consequent immigration, the fertile soils of Nebraska were plowed, and its grasslands gave rise to a range cattle industry.

Driving under the Bar Double T ranch gate earlier that morning -- our fourth -- then stopping to let a dozen range cattle saunter across the lane, Phillis and I had both experienced the sense that we were entering a much earlier part of the last century.

Since Aug. 1, the White Hart's hamburgers and steaks have come from grass-fed, free-range cattle raised four miles up the road.

The disastrously cold winter of 1886 87 sent the open-range cattle industry into a tailspin from which it never recovered.

During the relatively brief period of open-range cattle grazing, these areas—"cow country"—were largely free of farmers with their barbed-wire fences and grass-eating sheep.

Free-range cattle roam widely across the West, protected by centuries-old laws that give them the right of way while grazing and force landowners to fence them out.

Rodeo, sport involving a series of riding and roping contests derived from the working skills of the American cowboy as developed during the second half of the 19th century to support the open-range cattle industry in North America.