Dry inner bark from a cottonwood is tje best tinder. From Wordnik.com. [I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started.] Reference
This cottonwood, which is now in fruit, is of a different species from any in. From Wordnik.com. [The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources] Reference
Often they are made to look extra mean by a noble "cottonwood," or. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
There are no evergreen trees here, only cottonwood. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Atlantic coast, the greater part is of cottonwood or ash. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
It grows in mixture with ash, cottonwood and oak (see Fig. 12). From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Mine opens its mouth and swallows a cottonwood, a rusting Chrysler. From Wordnik.com. [One-Way Ticket] Reference
Thirty years will do for a cottonwood what two centuries will do for an oak. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Immense forests of cottonwood and ash are to be seen growing along its banks. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Freshly cut poplar and cottonwood are often dried direct from the saw in a kiln. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
It was fringed with cottonwood trees, and there was grass in abundance for our horses. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
The picture within the cavity in the great cottonwood was a pleasant one to contemplate. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
They also ate the buds of the cottonwood tree in company with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
I touch cottonwood dashed by a night gust, a stalk of wild wheat, a long blade of grass. From Wordnik.com. [Amo Ergo Sum] Reference
These, with the quaking ash and cottonwood along the streams, are the only woods of Montana. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Here there was a superb cottonwood grove, massive trees with huge trunks like oaks, on the left. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
Along the river there were a few groves of cottonwood, the only vegetation of any consequence to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
Meanwhile we dropped down the river, now tranquil as a pond, with low banks covered with cottonwood groves. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
It was dry and cozy in the hollow in the giant cottonwood and he missed the daily game of rough and tumble. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Plantations lying uncultivated for a single year, in the second present a handsome young growth of cottonwood. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The most important of these trees are oaks of many kinds, soft maple, alder, cottonwood, sycamore, and laurel. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Cap. with our gun-straps and some buckskin strings made a raft from small cottonwood logs we found on the bank. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
Four seasons of rain had come and gone since his advent into the world in the hollow cottonwood in the windfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Then she retired to the cavity in the great cottonwood and for three days and three nights the jungle saw her not. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Before long the windfall with the giant cottonwood containing the precious little Warruk had been left far behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
I still insisted that my original plan was the best, as the road through the cottonwood swamp was almost impassable. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
There were box-elder and cottonwood trees here and there, and cedars up the cliffs wherever they could find a footing. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
They made their way a mile upstream and came upon the Sheriff's horse, hitched fast to a cottonwood on the river bank. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
Dickerman collected Nos. 32605-32606 along an irrigated field-edge that consisted of cottonwood and oak; he obtained Nos. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
He parked in the shade of the huge cottonwood tree beside the house and bounced out with an armload of mail and newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference
And even where the land has been logged over, the forest is seldom open enough to allow reproduction of cottonwood and red gum. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Under a huge cottonwood tree, there was a bubbling spring, cool and clear, and down the creek a short distance was a small pool. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
At a convenient place we landed where there was a fine cottonwood grove and remained while Prof. made a climb and to jerk the beef. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
Large-sized tree, forms considerable forests along many of the Western streams, and furnishes most of the cottonwood of the market. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
There was plenty of good grass and we made our camp beneath some cottonwood trees, having accomplished twenty miles the way we came. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
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