The winter-bleached prairie straw proved devoid of nourishment; and they could only keep them from starving by seeking for the "browse," as it is called, this being the green bark and tender buds and branches of the cottonwood and other stunted growths in the hollows.

Ten rods further on were a dozen or more horses picketed at a few cottonwood trees.

Kit had brought a piece of tarpaulin and spread it between the roots of a cottonwood.

A figure, partly hidden by the cottonwood and the alders, stepped forward at this moment and prepared to moor the boat for her.

We waded the creek, made mud pies, and gathered posies in the narrow glades between the cottonwood, beech, and alder trees.

We encamped on the slope of the prairie, near a timber of cottonwood, oak, beech, and sycamore trees, where a clear brook rushed over its stony bed to join the Big Blue.

Meanwhile, Captain Russell had drawn a plan of the craft that should be built, and had marked the cottonwood trees on the river bank, half a mile above camp, that would furnish the necessary materials.

At two o'clock the next afternoon, she was buried at the foot of a monarch oak, in a neat cottonwood coffin, made by men of the party, and her grave was marked by a headstone.

To Alcatraz the Mexican was the type, and Cordova had seemed to unite in himself many powersstrength like a herd of bulls, endurance greater than the contemptible patience of the burro, speed like the lightning which winks in the sky one instant and shatters the cottonwood tree the next.

"Rustle a cow, now and then, but they don't aim no highernot since we strung Josh Sinclair to the cottonwood.

No, about the only summer home in this locality is the Abbey place at Cottonwood Point.

consists of western red cedar, yellow cypress, lodge-pole pine, cottonwood and white fir.

A group of towering cottonwood trees, standing in the dooryard, is so conspicuous a feature of the landscape that it serves as a guide for the pilots on the river boats.

MULFORD, CLARENCE E. Cottonwood Gulch.

Cottonwood justice.

MULFORD, CLARENCE E. Cottonwood Gulch.

We found some hills, but now the country was all one vast prairie, not a tree in sight till we reached the Platte, there some cottonwood and willow.

When several miles from Ft. Kearney I think on July 3rd, we camped near the river where there was a slough and much cottonwood and willow.

Here we found a large camp of the Sioux Indians on the bank of a ravine, on both sides of which were some large cottonwood trees.

There was an old cottonwood tree on bank with marks of an axe on it, but this was all the sign we saw that any one had ever been here before us.

But these mountains soon came to an end, and there was some cottonwood and willows on the bank of the river, which was now so smooth we could ride along without the continual loading and unloading we had been forced to practice for so long.

A cottonwood tree lay nearly across the river, and I had gone so far that I had to go around it and land below, but the other boys behind were afraid to do otherwise than to land right there as the Indian kept his gun lying across his arm.

Examples of this kind of wood are gum, yellow poplar, birch, maple, cottonwood, basswood, buckeye, and willow.

The weight of wood substance, that is, the material which composes the walls of the fibres and other cells, is practically the same in all species, whether pine, hickory, or cottonwood, being a little greater than half again as heavy as water.

The breeze of dawn, tired and worn out, was sinking to a fitful doze in the cottonwood foliage near by.