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 96
... stream with its brushy banks , of the bridge , the fence - row , and finally the cottonwood forest of home . Friday is west and northwest , nine to eleven o'clock on the clock diagram . The ecological communities are the live stream and ...
... stream with its brushy banks , of the bridge , the fence - row , and finally the cottonwood forest of home . Friday is west and northwest , nine to eleven o'clock on the clock diagram . The ecological communities are the live stream and ...
Page 105
... stream enters the lake through willows and cow parsnip and a pile of logs placed there when the lake was built to prevent silting . The north stream's entrance is hidden in elephant - foot - sized clumps of bulrush which change sheen ...
... stream enters the lake through willows and cow parsnip and a pile of logs placed there when the lake was built to prevent silting . The north stream's entrance is hidden in elephant - foot - sized clumps of bulrush which change sheen ...
Page 193
... stream ; but the waters wheel , and roll , and boil , and we are scarcely able to determine where we can go . Now , the boat is carried to the right , perhaps close to the wall ; again , she is shot into the stream , and perhaps is ...
... stream ; but the waters wheel , and roll , and boil , and we are scarcely able to determine where we can go . Now , the boat is carried to the right , perhaps close to the wall ; again , she is shot into the stream , and perhaps is ...
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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