DCHP-3

free grass

West, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

unsettled public grasslands on which livestock could be pastured without charge.

Quotations

1884
In its issue of the 17th May it advocates free ranges, and in its issue a week later it says the ranges are free in all but name.
1955
They would never know that this gallant herd of old cows had trailed across the last of the free-grass cattle frontiers of our continent, more than a half-century later than their ancestors of the Chisholm Trail days.