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...Some of the descriptions, by Baskin's wife and children, are worthy of Ogden Nash: "The pygmy marmoset's minuscule lips/ Spew shrieking taunts, fierce orations and quips." Others are freighted with anthropomorphisms and archness. But Paterfamilias Leonard makes no mistakes in his rendering of tigers, camels, bighorn sheep, aardvarks and other forms of animal life: the creatures seem to have an existence beyond the page. Parents should not be surprised if young readers hold the book up to their ears to hear the catcalls, snarls and bellows...
...town lovingly restored down to the last curlicues on its old gingerbread houses. It sits amid meadows, streams and mountains that seem to have been made for everything from hiking to hang gliding, from hooking a robust trout to shooting the rapids on a raft or glimpsing a rare bighorn sheep...
...bring "civilization and ultimate citizenship" to "the original occupants of this land." But the speaker's will was not as good as his word: he failed to block the stampede of gold hunters into the Black Hills Sioux country, and George Custer paid the price at Little Bighorn...
...Geologists have singled out 40,000 acres of federal land in Idaho as a possible source of cobalt. Yet last November the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee designated 2.2 million acres surrounding the site as a wilderness preserve, and banned any commercial activity that would disturb the elk, bighorn sheep and 188 other species that inhabit the area...
...building. He is close with his money but has unwound enough in the past few years to buy a Cadillac, several color TV sets and motorcycles for each of his three oldest sons. This year he even treated himself to a two-week trip hunting elk, bear and bighorn sheep in the Canadian Yukon. Pat sounds apologetic about his worldly goods and pleasures: 'Since the kids have gotten older we've bought a lot of things we really didn't need ?but that is one of the reasons we've been working hard...