Prairie Dog Colonies

Famous quotes containing the words prairie dog, prairie, dog and/or colonies:

    To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    So that’s our new flag. The thing we’ve been fighting for—thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.
    Lamar Trotti (1898–1952)