River Colony

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or colony:

“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)