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cow country

noun

a region of cattle ranches, as rural areas of the southwestern U.S., especially Texas.

First recorded in 1880–85

After Clark had grown up, in the cow country near the Mexican border, he stumbled unexpectedly into paradise.

He also displayed the eight-inch leather belt of the cow country, and elbow length leather cuffs studded with silver nails.

He's as much right to run sheep on government land as they have to run cattle, though sheep are a plumb nuisance in a cow country.

A great game country, a wild cow country, and now a quiet farming country.

For years had this bold Mendoza been having things pretty much his own way in the cow country.

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