Diego Estenega, the Spanish magnate of the North, whose ranchos adjoined Fort Ross, and who was financially interested in the Russian fur trade, soon became an intimate of the Rotscheff household.
I would give every league of myranchos for a necklace made from the ears of twenty Americans.
But ranchoswere lost and won; thousands of cattle would pass to other hands at the next rodeo; many a superbly caparisoned steed would rear and plunge between the spurs of a new master.
After that awful murder in the mountains the other day, the men of San Luis and the ranchos swore they would hunt them out, and this morning they traced them to Los Quervos.
Once in the saddle I hurried out of the piazza, passed the ranchos of yucca, and reaching the open country, pressed my horse into a gallop.
That is why the ranchos exist only in ruins--that is why the haciendas are loopholed, and the populace pent up within walls.
On the other side, ranchos had been ransacked and ruined, villages given to the flames, and men on mere suspicion shot down upon the spot or hanged upon the nearest tree.
There were no settlements on these bays or rivers, and the few ranchos and Missions were remote and widely separated.
The ranchos of Calabazas, of San Bernardino, and numerous other places on this frontier, presented the same melancholy aspect, the result of the inability of Mexico to protect this portion of territory from the inroads of the savages.
Life in the great ranchos still went on much as before, but it was no longer so simple and joyous.
Every one seemed to live out of doors, and though the ranchos were widely scattered, there was much visiting and social gayety.
To the young people upon the ranchos the arrival of a trading vessel was a great event.
The valley, as it approaches the ocean, is broad and fertile, and there are many fine ranchos upon it.
Their granaries were filled with an abundance of maize and frijoles, and their store-rooms with other necessaries of life, from the ranchos belonging to the mission lands in the vicinity.
Ranchos are scattered far up and down the plain, but not one human being could be seen stirring.
Their ranchos are in the valley, but their residences and gardens are in the town.
Several of the senoras and senoritas from the ranchos of the vicinity were present.
Belen, in the vicinity of which were others which were called Ranchos de Belen, and Pueblitos de Belen; nearly opposite the last, but directly on the W.
Leaving the main road at the Marisma, we entered a pathway, closely sheltered by trees and foliage, and after two hours rapid marching, halted at a cluster of ranchos by the roadside.
You will change horses at San Buenaventura, and at the ranchos on the way from there to San Fernando.
The walls of the houses were very low, but in other respects they resembled the ordinary ranchos of the civilized Indians.
The fact that these land-owners who established large ranchos were very efficient and faithful collaborators in the foundation of missions, was also taken into consideration by the Spanish Government or the viceroys of Mexico.
This was, of course, ruinous to Don Mariano, as well as to all owners of cattle ranchos where settlers had seen fit to locate homesteads.
Leese was busy building his house, so the Englishman, in his little launch, called at all the ranchos and settlements about the bay and invited the Spaniards to come to Yerba Buena for a Fourth of July fandango.
With a chain of missions and ranchos extending from San Diego to San Francisco, there was much interchange of hospitality, and Concha was a favorite guest at all fiestas.
Papantla, with thirteen villages, seven ranchos and the hacienda de Norias.
Excepting the ranchosand perhaps Pozo Escalante, they denote natural features only, and, with the same exceptions, the features are seen but rarely or from great distances by enlightened men.
This has been noted by the early missionaries and by the few other travelers who have approached their haunts, as well as by the vaqueros on the Encinas and Serna and other ranchos bordering their range, who know them as “los pobrecitos”.
Hiram Webster had, forty years before, bought the ranchos surrounding them from the Moreño grandees.
The next day the city on the ranchos was able to assure itself comfortably that Webster Lake had had its tragedy.
His ranchos covered four hundred thousand acres; his horses and cattle were unnumbered.
His ranchos adjoined the Russian settlement; the journey from his house to the military enclosure was not a long one.
At different times girls of the people had left Monterey suddenly, and vague rumors had floated down from the North that they had been seen in the redwood forests where Estenega's ranchos lay.
Cattle ranchos usually extend over from fifteen to thirty thousand acres of land; though many are smaller, and some, on Hawaii, larger.
The haciendas and ranchos have been mostly abandoned, and the people chiefly confined to towns and cities.
For their food, the Apaches rely chiefly upon the flesh of the cattle and sheep they can steal from the Mexican ranchos and haciendas.
A narrow path brought us out into the camino real, along which we passed several small ranchos of sugar-cane.
When the cholera swept like a scourge over this isolated country, the inhabitants of the villages and ranchos fled for safety to the mountains and the wilderness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranchos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
