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 81
... seemed quite unaware of any threat . Three familiar dogs crossing a farm pasture would have pro- duced as much of a reaction in a herd of domestic cattle as the wolves did among these caribou . The scene was all wrong . Here was a band ...
... seemed quite unaware of any threat . Three familiar dogs crossing a farm pasture would have pro- duced as much of a reaction in a herd of domestic cattle as the wolves did among these caribou . The scene was all wrong . Here was a band ...
Page 195
... seemed to be looking with such anguished perplexity into the fu- ture ; upon the sombre eyes of the boy , who seemed already to be looking into the past . The lit- tle town behind them had van- ished as if it had never been , had fallen ...
... seemed to be looking with such anguished perplexity into the fu- ture ; upon the sombre eyes of the boy , who seemed already to be looking into the past . The lit- tle town behind them had van- ished as if it had never been , had fallen ...
Page 257
... seemed to cover the earth on the plains and in West Texas , the sky was so blue you had to wear sunglasses to look into it . The scraggly gray sagebrush of Texas and the red clays , brown prai- rie grass , and windmills of New Mexico ...
... seemed to cover the earth on the plains and in West Texas , the sky was so blue you had to wear sunglasses to look into it . The scraggly gray sagebrush of Texas and the red clays , brown prai- rie grass , and windmills of New Mexico ...
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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