Rimrock

We located another separate burial site tucked up underneath some rimrock and walled off, as if by a stone mason ... a protruding femur confirmed it as a human burial ... these sites and many more artifacts are STILL THERE as I have not divulged the location to anyone ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

I started hand loading at the age of nine up in the sagebrush and rimrock cow country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Along the escarpments, redberry junipers grow on the rimrock and cliff faces, along with skunkbush sumac, ephedra, mountain mahogany, plum, grape, and clematis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Broad plains covered in sagebrush steppe, rimrock, and rocky uplands are typical of Ecoregion 80. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To see the West is to lust after it; and from the rimrock to the ramparts, where the shouting always begins, it is only a short leap. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He skirted the patch of mountain mahogany with the polished red branches and made his way along the rimrock, the oily rifle in his hand. ❋ Dusty Richards (2004)

Someplace, the man cut off from his people slept under a rimrock. ❋ Dusty Richards (2004)

Or I can walk up the canyon and climb high narrow hills, through the ferny trees, until I stand on rimrock in the wind. ❋ Baker, Kage (2004)

You had remembered how wonderfully he had always seen in the dark and how you had hung on to his tail with a bear hide packed across the saddle to come down trails when you could not see at all and when the trail led along the rimrock in the dark down through the timber. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (2001)

Flying over broken rimrock country at sunrise, with row after row of red hills and black shadows. ❋ Grouse (2001)

They had happened to be traveling below a kind of rimrock the day before, and had camped just at sunset. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1995)

I headed up behind the trailer to the nearby rimrock, a cliff twenty feet high that runs all along the top of our shallow valley. ❋ WILL HOBBS (1995)

I walked down from the rimrock and joined my parents as they watched from the cabin step, hugging each other. ❋ WILL HOBBS (1995)

At last I was able to feel four feet again, and make them work, and I dragged myself back up to the rimrock. ❋ WILL HOBBS (1995)

The rain started again, and I headed for shelter in the rimrock. ❋ WILL HOBBS (1995)

For three days more they moved eastward, past the line of the rimrock but not beyond the desert or the mountains. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1995)