Of Discovery & Destiny: An Anthology of American Writers and the American LandRobert C. Baron, Elizabeth Darby Junkin An anthology of poetry, short stores, and excerpts from longer works about the American experience of the land and nature by a variety of American authors past and present. |
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... beginning to bore after the long winter of living on stored foods from last year's harvest . John and the children ... beginnings . More land was cleared and more farms built along those miles . Roads were cut through the wilderness but ...
... beginning to bore after the long winter of living on stored foods from last year's harvest . John and the children ... beginnings . More land was cleared and more farms built along those miles . Roads were cut through the wilderness but ...
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... beginning . Seven miles up the Nation , he and Lilly built a ten - by - fourteen - foot cabin of unpeeled , saddle - notched logs . It had two windows , paned with soft clear plastic . It was chinked with moss . Its roof consisted of ...
... beginning . Seven miles up the Nation , he and Lilly built a ten - by - fourteen - foot cabin of unpeeled , saddle - notched logs . It had two windows , paned with soft clear plastic . It was chinked with moss . Its roof consisted of ...
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... beginning to take on their behavior ; the first thing Sutton would do after killing a bird for his study was to preen the bird better than the bird itself might have . This poem was written by Sutton the year before he died ; it speaks ...
... beginning to take on their behavior ; the first thing Sutton would do after killing a bird for his study was to preen the bird better than the bird itself might have . This poem was written by Sutton the year before he died ; it speaks ...
Contents
John and Mildred Teal Life and Death of the Salt Marsh | 14 |
Hal Borland High Wide and Lonesome | 30 |
William W Warner Beautiful Swimmers | 48 |
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