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 191
... look down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol Park , and measure this distance overhead , and imagine cliffs to extend to that attitude , and you will understand what I mean ; or , stand at Canal street , in New York and look up Broadway ...
... look down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol Park , and measure this distance overhead , and imagine cliffs to extend to that attitude , and you will understand what I mean ; or , stand at Canal street , in New York and look up Broadway ...
Page 254
... look for company . To the west , mountains often rose to over 14,000 feet . Lake City was 150 miles away . In the silent , drowsy town of Blanca a thin Spanish man walked up to us , looking very ser- ious . He had an old , but clean ...
... look for company . To the west , mountains often rose to over 14,000 feet . Lake City was 150 miles away . In the silent , drowsy town of Blanca a thin Spanish man walked up to us , looking very ser- ious . He had an old , but clean ...
Page 257
... look into it . The scraggly gray sagebrush of Texas and the red clays , brown prai- rie grass , and windmills of New Mexico were replaced by building- sized boulders of faded grays . Slashes of white rock cut upward into the blue sky ...
... look into it . The scraggly gray sagebrush of Texas and the red clays , brown prai- rie grass , and windmills of New Mexico were replaced by building- sized boulders of faded grays . Slashes of white rock cut upward into the blue sky ...
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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