The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... RIVER , MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN The Father of Waters . The Big Drink . The Mississippi . The name of the river is derived from the Algonquin misi , meaning great , and sipi , meaning river . Le Page du Pratz , Histoire de la Louisiane , 1758 ...
... RIVER , MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN The Father of Waters . The Big Drink . The Mississippi . The name of the river is derived from the Algonquin misi , meaning great , and sipi , meaning river . Le Page du Pratz , Histoire de la Louisiane , 1758 ...
Page 105
... river and had a swim , so as to freshen up and cool off ; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee - deep , and watched the daylight come . Not a sound anywheres - perfectly stilljust like the whole world was ...
... river and had a swim , so as to freshen up and cool off ; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee - deep , and watched the daylight come . Not a sound anywheres - perfectly stilljust like the whole world was ...
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... River , 1935 [ The Missouri is ] the hungriest river ever created . . . eating yellow clay banks and cornfields , eighty acres at a mouthful , winding up its banquet with a truck garden and picking its teeth with the timbers of a big ...
... River , 1935 [ The Missouri is ] the hungriest river ever created . . . eating yellow clay banks and cornfields , eighty acres at a mouthful , winding up its banquet with a truck garden and picking its teeth with the timbers of a big ...
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