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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... thought by no means universally believed to be . The extent and shape of the contin- ental mainland , if such it ... thought about the interior , everyone thought it far smaller than it was , thought it but tenth or a hundredth of its ...
... thought by no means universally believed to be . The extent and shape of the contin- ental mainland , if such it ... thought about the interior , everyone thought it far smaller than it was , thought it but tenth or a hundredth of its ...
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... thought of it first . Seeing the fish that I first thought would be there led me to won- dering which way he would be pointing in the river . " Remember , when you make the first cast , " I thought , " that you saw him on the - wash ...
... thought of it first . Seeing the fish that I first thought would be there led me to won- dering which way he would be pointing in the river . " Remember , when you make the first cast , " I thought , " that you saw him on the - wash ...
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... thought all these thoughts and some besides that proved of no value , and then I cast and I caught him . I kept cool until I tried to take the hook out of his mouth . He was lying covered with sand on the little bar where I had landed ...
... thought all these thoughts and some besides that proved of no value , and then I cast and I caught him . I kept cool until I tried to take the hook out of his mouth . He was lying covered with sand on the little bar where I had landed ...
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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