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Dry Rivers and Standing Rocks: A Word Finder for the American West
Dry Rivers and Standing Rocks A Word Finder for the American West
Author: Scott Thybony
All writers get stuck looking for the right word. Noticing that this was an acute problem for writers in the West because standard thesauruses face east, Scott Thybony started a file of western words. Sorting through spoken and written texts, he looked, as he puts it, for "grounded talk," "place-linked words, both rooted and wind-blown." He ende...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780826322616
ISBN-10: 0826322611
Publication Date: 9/1/2000
Pages: 104
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Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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