The valley lies between a high wall of red sandstone and the "hogback," -- that is what the foothills are called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference

The roads led between "hogback" hills, as they are called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The end of an era,] Reference

A "hogback," be it understood, is a rugged rocky mound, carved by weather erosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Range] Reference

"hogback" in the snow, running a curving parallel with the plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Snare] Reference

The grasses on the hogback sparkled like a field of gilded wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

Is she going to cook fried chicken or grits or maybe hogback and beens.    From Wordnik.com.  [First lady challenges Iron Chefs] Reference

Ponderosa pine cover the crest of the hogback and the interior foothills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference

The meadow was half a mile wide, sloping up against a hogback at the edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Lot of trails of antelope herds on the hogback ridges south of Brown's Canyon.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

The Red Valley (Racetrack) inside the hogback encircles most of the Black Hills dome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)] Reference

When we hit the hogback south of the Interstate, we break west, back towards the airport.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

We're only five miles from the airport, but we can see the south hogback face of the Ferrises.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

The emperor of China patents the toothbrush: hogback bristles set into a piece of bone or bamboo.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 26, 1498 | clusterflock] Reference

It's easy to cover the winter range here, since the deer stay on the hogback, the only shelter around.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

A few miles west of the campers I spotted a herd of 14 antelope on a hogback at the base of the mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

He carefully studied the low-lying hogback ahead, which couldn't have been more than 5 kilometres distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagabond of Space]

The massive air masses pressing against this hogback mountain range, struggling to overwhelm the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

I head back down the red hogback, ignoring the hyper heelers as we drive out of the hills, back to the highway.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

As we reach the hogback ridge, the heelers trot ahead to the shade of the first trees and wait for me to catch up.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

His closest neighbors to the west were the wild animals that combed the ridges of the jutting hogback a few hundred feet away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

As journalists, Horst and I had often flown into such country, usually to a sandbagged outpost perched on some narrow hogback ridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saigon Quartet] Reference

He saw he was standing on the same hogback the bear had shuffled across with her cubs the day he and Katie had come up the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

I was coming down a hogback that rimmed one edge of a little sawed-off swale when I caught the gleam, sitting at the edge of shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Tycho]

Beyond the hogback rise huge mountains, rugged cañons, and noisy mountain streams; great forests of pine help to make up the picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference

Let them ride hogback through the mud if they will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference

"I seen the confab from over on that hogback yonder.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Range] Reference

No longer the friendly loom of the hogback was on his left.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Range] Reference

Larkin knew that all the sheep had not yet passed the top of the hogback.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Range] Reference

The water would then be pumped over a hogback to be stored in the reservoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference

The first land he encountered was a high hogback of rock which proved to be an island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kings in Exile] Reference

The ground here was a series of four or five hogback ridges about a hundred yards apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [World's War Events, Vol. I] Reference

"Now this Bar-O ranch is just over the hogback, south of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

He stared out toward the hogback and said, "I think it's clearing a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

He stared out toward the hogback and said, “I think it’s clearing a little.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

They were headed for the creek and the hogback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramblers and Spinners] Reference

  They were headed for the creek and the hogback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramblers and Spinners] Reference

With eighty men and rifles on a hogback mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir of a Proud Boy] Reference