open range
Boundaryless grazing land
Open range is land where livestock can graze freely without fences—historically the unfenced public lands of the American West where cattle roamed.
The term evokes a particular era of ranching before barbed wire divided the landscape.
In legal contexts, open range laws place the burden on landowners to fence animals out rather than on ranchers to fence them in.
- cattle drivesLong-distance livestock relocation
- long driveLengthy vehicle journey
- unfencedLacking a boundary barrier
- barbed wireSpiked metal fence material
- rangelandLand for grazing animals
grazing · herding · cowboys · prairie · ranching · branding · cattle country · Chisholm Trail · frontier spirit · old west · public lands · land grant · Wild West · drover · round up · pioneer life · freedom · homesteading
- Great PlainsGreat Plains, high plains, High Plains, grassland, grasslands
- Rural NevadaBeatty, Goldfield, Austin, Eureka, Rachel
- Cowboycowboy, cowboys, cowgirls, ranch, rancher
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- ranchingcattle, ranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching
- Westernscowboys, western, outlaws, sheriffs, western novels
open rangefeedlot
Livestock fattening enclosure
corral · paddock · stockyard · fenced pasture · pen
open rangeurban sprawl
Uncontrolled peripheral development
industrial zone · confined space · walled compound · fenced yard · suburban development