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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Page 235
... close of an unforgiving annal of settle- ment which had started itself some eighty years earlier . It is not known just when in the 1860's the first white pioneers trickled into our area of south- central Montana , into what would come ...
... close of an unforgiving annal of settle- ment which had started itself some eighty years earlier . It is not known just when in the 1860's the first white pioneers trickled into our area of south- central Montana , into what would come ...
Page 295
... close to the shore by the forests , dark and forbidding , the people said . By that time much of England was an old land with few virgin forests , but the legends persisted . Deep woods were full of terror and danger . " Hal Borland ...
... close to the shore by the forests , dark and forbidding , the people said . By that time much of England was an old land with few virgin forests , but the legends persisted . Deep woods were full of terror and danger . " Hal Borland ...
Page 342
... close sometimes in sleep . We slept in the sand close to the water's edge. § 342 § Mark Twain Roughing It.
... close sometimes in sleep . We slept in the sand close to the water's edge. § 342 § Mark Twain Roughing It.
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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