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"Desert Rain" by Mary Hunter Austin High in the sierras, All the smouldering summer, Sudden the thunder! Rain on the mountains, Rain on the dry hills…

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Badger Clark (Charles Badger Clark Jr.) was born on January 1, 1883, in Albany, Iowa, and became one of the most iconic voices in American Western poetry.…

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