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With her the word "ranch" had connoted large prairie areas, bald landscapes, herds of cattle, lonely horsemen, buildings more or less ugly, unrelieved by any special surroundings.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)