Word: deere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Often the mounds were piled up in the images of animals. In Wisconsin are buffalo, moose, elk, deer, fox, wolf, panther, lynx and eagle tumuli, evidently of totemic significance, the actual graves being dug hard by. These images are enormous: eagles with 1,000 ft. wingspread; panthers with 350-ft. tails. The Great Serpent Mound (Adams County, Ohio) is 1,348 ft. long, following the curves of the body and the triple-coiled tail. The opened jaws are 75 ft. across, yawning at a smaller mound -which resembles a frog...
...Yellowstone are more than 20,000 elk, 2,000 deer, over 800 buffalo, 500 moose, 600 big horn sheep, more than 400 antelope, hundreds of bears, and other animals without number...
...wooded estate, out from the city. . . .Deer driven through the crackling underbrush. . . A host of pursuers, disappointed because the Prince had begged to be excused...
Against gunpowder, what chance has the poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...
Crazy Horse, Lame Deer, Spotted Eagle, Elk Horn, Broad Road, Natchez and, most bloody of all, Geronimo the Apache and, most formidable, Sitting Bull- down they went, years ago, before Big Chief Bear Coat...