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In the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming , at a little ranch where I sometimes go off the main road , at the head of a valley under the Gros Ventres Mountains , and on the edge of what is still mainly wilderness ( I say mainly ...
In the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming , at a little ranch where I sometimes go off the main road , at the head of a valley under the Gros Ventres Mountains , and on the edge of what is still mainly wilderness ( I say mainly ...
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... when the Army Engineers , in their unalterable and relentless plan of damming every tributary in the Columbia and Snake River watershed , build a dam across the Hoback and send a lake up the lovely valley of Granite Creek .
... when the Army Engineers , in their unalterable and relentless plan of damming every tributary in the Columbia and Snake River watershed , build a dam across the Hoback and send a lake up the lovely valley of Granite Creek .
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The expeditionists named valleys and streams freely enough as they went along , but though they spoke of the sierras , or ranges , along which they traveled or over which they crossed , they did not distinguish individual peaks .
The expeditionists named valleys and streams freely enough as they went along , but though they spoke of the sierras , or ranges , along which they traveled or over which they crossed , they did not distinguish individual peaks .
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Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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