Prairie Dogs

Famous quotes containing the words prairie dogs, prairie and/or dogs:

“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)

“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

“Like dogs in Mexico,
furless, sore, misshapen,
arrives from laborious nowhere
Agony.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)