Prairie Dog Burrows

Famous quotes containing the words prairie dog, prairie and/or dog:

    “To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
    In the days of long ago,
    Ranged where the locomotives sing
    And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    “The old dog barks backward without getting up.
    I can remember when he was a pup.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)