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 166
... mountain which overshadowed it as the landmark which , a few days before , had received from General Washburn the name of Mount Everts ; and as it is associated with some of the most agreeable and terrible incidents of my exile , I feel ...
... mountain which overshadowed it as the landmark which , a few days before , had received from General Washburn the name of Mount Everts ; and as it is associated with some of the most agreeable and terrible incidents of my exile , I feel ...
Page 237
... mountain upon mountain - thrusts up a bare summit with a giant crater gouged in its side . Even in hottest summer , snow lies in the great pock of crater like a patch on a gape of wound . Always , then , there is this reminder that ...
... mountain upon mountain - thrusts up a bare summit with a giant crater gouged in its side . Even in hottest summer , snow lies in the great pock of crater like a patch on a gape of wound . Always , then , there is this reminder that ...
Page 257
... mountain roads seemed to go up for days . They climbed enough that they ate up car transmissions and burned up brakes . These mountains also killed people who lacked respect for them . Some came and thought they could run up a Rocky ...
... mountain roads seemed to go up for days . They climbed enough that they ate up car transmissions and burned up brakes . These mountains also killed people who lacked respect for them . Some came and thought they could run up a Rocky ...
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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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