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free range West, Hist. 
unsettled public grasslands on which livestock could be pastured without charge.
See also: free grass
- 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.
- 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.