Staked Plain

noun

1. another name for the Llano Estacado

Example Sentences

They can't go around th' Double Arrow unless they are willing to cross th' Staked Plain, an' you can bet they ain't.

From Project Gutenberg

Here shrubs and trees disappear, except the thorny chaparral of the deserts; the water-courses all cease, nor does any stream intervene until the Rio Grande is reached, three hundred and fifty miles distant, except the muddy Pecos, which, rising in the Rocky Mountains, near Santa Fé, crosses the great desert plain west of the Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain.

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During the last year the Signal Service extended its telegraph lines across the Staked Plain to San Diego, California.

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In 1872 a portion of the tribe, the Quanhada or Staked Plain Comanches, had again to be reduced by military measures.

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Over a similar part of the staked plain came the exploring Spaniards, with their cattle and caparisoned horses, their enslaved Aztecs, their priests bearing the Cross before.

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