1.   Beating Baucus this time around, Republican strategists conjectured, would just be a matter of recruiting the right candidate to work the mining towns and ranch country.

2.   In ranch country, it is never too soon to wonder about the next season of snow and ice.

3.   None of this is typical in ranch country.

4.   Rain bypassed or barely wet wide sections of ranch country while reviving pasture and range land grasses across other large areas.

5.   The crest was moving Monday night and this morning through the sparsely populated ranch country south of Eagle Pass.

6.   The checkpoints have become useful landmarks for visitors traveling the network of gravel roads that crisscross ranch country.

7.   This is ranch country.