Word: rivers
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Massachusetts State Police are continuing their investigation into Saturday morning's discovery of a dead male body in the Charles River near the shores...
From Mill Street, tunnel spurs take steam, power, telephone and data lines to the other houses along the river, but the main line runs under Lowell House and up under Linden Street to the Yard...
Young also said in 1993 that former Harvard Police Chief Robert Tonis, while serving as an FBI agent in 1939, lost track of a suspected Nazi spy when he disappeared into the tunnels through a River House...
...wrong place at the wrong time," says Larson, who was released last month. The place was South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, the time 1990. Larson was on a prospecting trip for the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a well-respected commercial fossil-supply house he founded in 1974. There's no law against selling fossils, even important ones, as long as they're found on private land, and that's what Larson thought he'd done. The acreage in question belonged to Maurice Williams, a Sioux cattle rancher, and Larson had secured permission in advance...
...result, Legends of the American Desert (Knopf; 534 pages; $30) is a fascinating and sometimes bewildering profusion of themes that appear, join, separate and disappear like the braided channels of a Southwestern river. It is also an impressive exercise in graceful journalism. Chapters on the Anasazi and Havasupai tribes, for instance, and the Jesuits and Franciscans, don't read like potted histories ploddingly typed from a writer's file cards. There's no dust in this desert history. Colonizers and colonized live in the author's mind; ideas about them boil up, and off he goes in pursuit...