Now Curdie did not know that this was a part of the country very hard to get through.

This is a hard country, Laurie, and there's a war for range.

"Well, it's hard country," I say with a little irritation.

It was hard country for women, Bob knew that.

They retreated into the hard country, and I've never been able to pick up their trail.

These were northern warriors from a hard country and not a man spoke as they advanced.

The United States, he added, "is a hard country to get established in."

Not in this hard country, and with him on that horse.

These were the marks of life in a hard country where many fall victim to drink and depression.

It looked like hard country, but she had no choice.