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 117
... summer . Others besides the Hare were darting about with new cour- age , or a new reliance on bluff . She started ... summers spent at her grandparents ' house in Ohio , where most of her play was outside . She later spent several ...
... summer . Others besides the Hare were darting about with new cour- age , or a new reliance on bluff . She started ... summers spent at her grandparents ' house in Ohio , where most of her play was outside . She later spent several ...
Page 198
... summer one of his plow horses broke its leg in a prairie - dog hole and had to be shot . Another summer he lost his hogs from cholera , and a valuable stal- lion died from a rattlesnake bite . Time and again his crops had failed . He ...
... summer one of his plow horses broke its leg in a prairie - dog hole and had to be shot . Another summer he lost his hogs from cholera , and a valuable stal- lion died from a rattlesnake bite . Time and again his crops had failed . He ...
Page 242
... summer in winter . This is our weather - unpredictable , to say the least . And , regard- less of all the severe conditions we have endured and of all the memor- ies of lost livestock , it takes only two lovely days of Indian Summer in ...
... summer in winter . This is our weather - unpredictable , to say the least . And , regard- less of all the severe conditions we have endured and of all the memor- ies of lost livestock , it takes only two lovely days of Indian Summer in ...
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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