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In due course he called forth “a grand army of husbandmen … to battle against the timberless prairies,” and on April 10, 1872, established the first Arbor Day.

From Slate • May 25, 2020

From my vantage-point on the ridge I had an unobstructed view of the encampment, a great circle of tepees and tents three miles in circumference, cradled in a sag of the timberless hills.

From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Of the possessions of the House of Wotton Wade, this old manor, timberless and bare, was all that remained, and its master rarely visited it.

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

Wood River I "make my bow" to the first growth of natural timber since leaving the mountains, which indicates my gradual advance off the vast timberless plains.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas

So they crawled on persistently, and eventually, ahead of them over the desert, white tents glowed pink in the sunlight like toadstools in a great timberless pasture, and their first trip was nearing its end.

From The She Boss A Western Story by Hankins, Arthur Preston