Staked Plain

British  

noun

1. another name for the Llano Estacado

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Example Sentences

They can't go around th' Double Arrow unless they are willing to cross th' Staked Plain, an' you can bet they ain't.

From Project Gutenberg

Here shrubs and trees disappear, except the thorny chaparral of the deserts; the water-courses all cease, nor does any stream intervene until the Rio Grande is reached, three hundred and fifty miles distant, except the muddy Pecos, which, rising in the Rocky Mountains, near Santa Fé, crosses the great desert plain west of the Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain.

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During the last year the Signal Service extended its telegraph lines across the Staked Plain to San Diego, California.

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In 1872 a portion of the tribe, the Quanhada or Staked Plain Comanches, had again to be reduced by military measures.

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All that night and all the next day they rode, making northeast toward the desolate desert region of the Staked Plain, on the homeward way across western Texas.

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