They go as far as they can, or dare, toward the tillable lands in their own boulder fenced gullies-but how much farther in the man-made waterways.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin
"The country tributary to Orleans" so Norman says, "contains nearly as many square miles and more tillable ground than all of continental Europe, and if peopled as densely as England, would sustain a population of five hundred millions."
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett
Other government settlers were wont to remark the remoteness of his residence from the tillable part of his claim, but Parker remained loyal to his own fireside.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham