"Barranca" Quotes from Famous Books
... silvery sheen of the mesquite when the sun is streaming westward. Dust eddies whirled across the barranca. The prickly pear and the palo verde flashed past, green splashes against a background of drab. The pudgy creosote, the buffalo grass, the undulation of sand hills were an old story, but to-day his eyes devoured them hungrily. The wonderful effect of space and light, ... — Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine |