Word: bayou
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...Bayou Croaker...
...bayou bullfrog, Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo hopped on the Senate floor...
Died. Lyle Saxon, 54, local-colorist of the Louisiana bayou country; after long illness; in New Orleans. From oft-told tales about the quadroons and mulattoes who inhabited the shifting Mississippi delta, he wove novels of romance and violence (Children of Strangers, Lafitte, the Pirate] and neo-Gothic horror stories of New Orleans-below-the-belt (Gumbo...
...goldenrod. . . . Sometimes like a fuzzy caterpillar looking in the cotton was a winding line of thick green willows and cypresses, and when the train crossed this green, running on a loud iron bridge, down its center like a golden mark on the caterpillar's back would be a bayou...
James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, ballad-singer and tunesmith (You Are My Sunshine), who serenaded the people of Louisiana into electing him governor, went fly-casting (with a bug) in a bayou near Bunkie, hooked and landed...