Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamisa
Literary usage of Chamisa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to by William Hemsley Emory (1848)
"The chamisa grows to a considerable height, and the stalk is sometimes two or
three inches in diameter; a fire can be made of it sufficient to boil a kettle ..."
2. Our Hispanic Southwest by Ernest Peixotto (1916)
"But the plains were mottled with greasewood and with vivid patches of chamisa,
with scrub palmillas and dwarf cedars, and gay at times with sunflowers, ..."
3. Illustrated New Mexico by William Gillet Ritch, New Mexico Bureau of Immigration (1883)
"... and chamisa. No expense need be incurred for shelter during the winter, which
is very short and mild, natural wind-breaks and all the protection ..."
4. ...Trelawny Papers by James Phinney Baxter, Robert Trelawny (1884)
"... e. the use or hire of the govern- 4 chamisa. These were reeds upon ment scales.
which to pile the fish, to keep them * This was the service granted to ..."
5. Aztlan: The History, Resources, and Attractions of New Mexico by William Gillet Ritch (1885)
"On the plains and mesas are also vast areas covered with chamisa, a shrub on
which the cattle feed and fatten. It is very heating, and in that respect makes ..."
6. History of New Mexico: Its Resources and People by George B. Anderson, Pacific States Publishing Co (1907)
"... resembling in appearance and composition the soil in the artesian belt on the
Pecos river. This part of the county contains a growth of chamisa, ..."
7. Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico by Alice Corbin Henderson (1920)
"He comes around by Arroyo chamisa— A small grey figure, as grey as his burros—
Down from the mountains, with cedar and pine Girt about each of the burros ..."
8. The Snake-dance of the Moquis of Arizona, Being a Narrative of a Journey by John Gregory Bourke (1884)
"He asserted that he was a member of the chamisa or Sage Brush clan, his father
was of the Maiz or Corn clan, his wife and children of the Coyote, ..."
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