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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... Wild , primitive , grand was the scene . It was eloquent of the past . The future stretched away like the dim , strange , unknown purple distances , with an intimation of trage- dy . But the hour was one of natural fruition , wild life ...
... Wild , primitive , grand was the scene . It was eloquent of the past . The future stretched away like the dim , strange , unknown purple distances , with an intimation of trage- dy . But the hour was one of natural fruition , wild life ...
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... wild land he had come to tame . It was still a wild thing that had its ugly moods ; and no one knew when they were likely to come , or why . Mischance hung over it . Its Genius was unfriendly to man . The sick man was feeling this as he ...
... wild land he had come to tame . It was still a wild thing that had its ugly moods ; and no one knew when they were likely to come , or why . Mischance hung over it . Its Genius was unfriendly to man . The sick man was feeling this as he ...
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... wild " for us . When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach , then it was that for us the " Wild West " began . Luther Standing Bear of the Sioux ( 1868-1939 ) Land of the Spotted Eagle " America is my country ...
... wild " for us . When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach , then it was that for us the " Wild West " began . Luther Standing Bear of the Sioux ( 1868-1939 ) Land of the Spotted Eagle " America is my country ...
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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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