A few ranchers took advantage of free state land to carve out large ranches.

The Bar FX Ranch became the first true guest ranch in 1923, followed by Remuda, Kay El Bar, Rancho de los Caballeros, and Flying E ranches, just to mention a few.

As the valley began to fill up with a few ranches and farms, a post office was established in 1875.

The area to the east ( site of the Concord Naval Weapons Station ) was the site of a few enormous wheat ranches over, and was almost a sea of wheat all the way to the marshes bordering Suisun Bay.

* Douglas Avenue, a neighborhood just northeast of town with a mix of housing styles, including ranches, two-stories, townhomes, and a few apartments.

Prior to 1899, the area was primarily a few ranches and a stagecoach crossing with limited permanent settlement.

Prior to 1941, the area consisted of ranches and a few scattered silica mines.

The topography of modern Chatsworth is varied, with many industrial areas, sleepy home communities, large apartment and condominium complexes, parks, ranches, horse stables, horse trails, and farms, a few shopping centers, restaurants, and a train station.

The attacks ceased after a few days, however, and the ranches there returned to normal operation.

Prior to being drained, filled and leveled by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, the hilly area north of Panama City was home to a few subsistence ranches and unused marshlands.

After road-building made the valley more accessible, settlers established farms, ranches, and a few small towns along the river and its tributaries.

They were the sons of Robert Carson, an American who was one of the very few survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail and who went on to found one of the early ranches at Pavilion and whose holdings became part of the Diamond S Ranch.

There are quite a few campgrounds / ranches just outside the park.

There are a few outlying ranches along the Truckee River between Wadsworth and Nixon.

Whilst a few of these townships ( such as Barrow Creek ) are stations ( ranches ), the vast majority of them are indigenous Australian communities.

New Jersey folk need not be told of the builder's march to the sea, for in a single generation he has parceled and populated miles of our shoreline and presses on to develop the few open spaces that remain.

But with all the changes in philosophy, dress and terrain -- a few things remain constant, including the devotion of Americans to the great field sports, hunting and fishing.

However, septic tanks remain popular because they permit standard plumbing fixtures, and require few or no lifestyle sacrifices.

While mountain tops remain snow-capped year long, near the coast snow only stays on the ground for a few minutes or hours.

Delay line memory would be limited to a capacity of up to a few hundred thousand bits to remain efficient.

The effects of this process will remain for a period of time known as the " refractory period ", which can range from a few seconds to some hours while it is slowly reabsorbed back into the synovial fluid.

Most of Vertov's early work was unpublished, and few manuscripts remain after the Second World War, though some material survived in later films and documentaries created by Vertov and his brothers, Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman.

Etruscan had some influence on Latin, as a few dozen Etruscan words and names were borrowed by the Romans, some of which remain in modern languages.

Theoretical and empirical studies identify non-random emergent patterns of few strong and many weak linkages that explain how ecological communities remain stable over time.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain.

All felids have retractable claws, although in a few species, such as the cheetah, the claws remain visible even when retracted.

Some guild traditions still remain in a few handicrafts, in Europe especially among shoemakers and barbers.

A few survivors and newly arriving mutants who wish to help with the rebuilding process remain on the island.

Similar sorties followed on 10 and 11 January, but the results of these " cat and mouse " operations were always the same: " the Greek destroyers always managed to remain outside the Ottoman warships ' range, and each time the cruisers fired a few rounds before breaking off the chase.

Only a few of them remain in service today.

Additionally there remain a few hereditary knights in the Netherlands.

Leicester's gatehouse is one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact.

However, a few examples of these medieval libraries, such as the libraries of Chinguetti in West Africa, remain intact and relatively unchanged.

It was to remain one of the few mass strikes against the German war machinery in Western Europe.

The Cairo-Dakar Highway in the Trans-African Highway network also passes through Mauritania, and has recently been paved between the capital Nouakchott and the port of Nouadhibou ; only a few kilometres remain unpaved at the Moroccan border: fr: Transport en Mauritanie.

It was this surprising, disarmingly friendly treatment, that " was successful to some degree ," the report concludes, in undermining hatred of the communists among American soldiers, in persuading some to sign anti-American confessions, and even leading a few to reject repatriation and remain in Communist China.

Since the fall of the Eastern European communist regimes, the Soviet Union, and a variety of African communist regimes, only a few currently remain, including: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.

All but a few primate species remain at least partly arboreal.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

His legs suddenly feel heavy and unaccountably weary, as if he had walked for miles, instead of strolling a few hundred yards along the old campus paths.

Cardboard noisemakers, substitutes for the unavailable tin models, were being hawked and bought at makeshift stands every few yards along Broadway, and one's ears were continually serenaded by the horns' rasps and bleats.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

Bring along the conventional ones -- catsup, pickle relish, mustard, mayonnaise -- plus a few extras, such as tangy barbecue sauce, chive cream cheese, or horse-radish for the brave ones in the crowd.

The few cases of clear favoritism along social-class lines are as likely as not to involve representatives of the working class on the school board who favor some such practice as higher wages for janitors rather than pay increases for teachers, and such issues are not issues of educational policy.

A few professional baseball players cultivated eccentricities, with the encouragement of the press, so that they might see their names in big black print, along with Daddy Browning's, Al Capone's, Earl Sande's, and the Prince of Wales'.

A few passed along a tip for the simple reason that they liked him and wanted to give him a break.

Various shelves along the margins of the continents constitute about 11 % of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise.

Only in a few cases are leaves produced along the length of the stem.

True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts.

Their territories were small and mostly strung along the Rhine ( although a few were in the hinterland ).

By the end of the 18th century there were no factories or mills and only a few small cottage industries along the border with Zurich.

Of the latter, only a few precious metals occur in pure forms, but other purified base metals may as well be placed in this category along with certain naturally-occurring alloys such as electrum.

Indonesia, South Korea, China, and Malaysia along with Denmark are among the nations that have consistently produced world-class players in the past few decades, with China being the greatest force in both men's and women's competition in recent years.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

After every few shots, the " ceiling " of the playing arena drops downwards slightly, along with all the bubbles stuck to it.

However, it has not incorporated the general Eastern umlaut of all synchronic or even historic " ya " sounds into " e " before front vowels – e. g. поляна ( polyana ) vs полени ( poleni ) " meadow – meadows " or even жаба ( zhaba ) vs жеби ( zhebi ) " frog – frogs ", even though it co-occurs with the yat alternation in almost all Eastern dialects that have it ( except a few dialects along the yat border, e. g. in the Pleven region ).

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

In Sutherland quite a few are placed along the sides and at the mouths of deep valleys.

During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.

Communication is usually described along a few major dimensions: Message ( what type of things are communicated ), source / emisor / sender / encoder ( by whom ), form ( in which form ), channel ( through which medium ), destination / receiver / target / decoder ( to whom ), and Receiver.

An obsession emerges among the mainstream with the new movement, and the old one falls into neglect-sometimes it dies out entirely, but often it chugs along favored in a few disciplines and occasionally making reappearances ( sometimes prefixed with " neo -").

Prints of their photographs of the fairies, along with a few other items including a first edition of Conan Doyle's book The Coming of the Fairies, were sold at auction in London for £ 21, 620 in 1998.