Bear Lake Area

Famous quotes containing the words bear, lake and/or area:

    How strange or odd some’er I bear myself,
    As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
    To put an antic disposition on.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Lenin on a bench beside a lake disturbed
    The swans. He was not the man for swans.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)