It sloped down for a long way, and made a wide curve to the right, along the base of hilly pastureland, and then again turned.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
Most all the ranch houses were vacant and much of the pastureland had become a dust bowl.
"The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography"
Johnson, Clarence Edgar
The desert had fringed away into a grand rolling pastureland, walled in by the red cliffs, the slopes of Buckskin, and further isolated by the Canyon.
"The Last of the Plainsmen"
Zane Grey