and given the name Pawtuxie—Pinewoman. In 1920 she was president of the Women's Press Club of Oregon and in 1924 was first president of the Northwest Poetry Society. She has contributed short stories and poems to numerous magazines, has written several one-act plays and is the author of the following books: The Drums in Our Street, war poems, 1918; The Slave with Two Faces, an allegory in one act, 1918; Youth Riding, lyrics, 1919; A Little Freckled Person, child verse, 1919; The Husband Test, 1921; Outdoors and Us, child verse, 1922; The Skyline Trail, western verse, 1924; Picture, Verse and Song, 1925; Penny Show, 1927; Red Kites and Wooden Crosses, 1929.
SAGE-BRUSH
From The Skyline Trail, 1924
And I remember riding out with you—
Sage-brush, sage-brush, violet and purple,
Gray under noon sun, and silver under dew.
Riding to the rim-rock, climbing up a trail,
Riding when the sunset is pricking out the river;
Far from ranch or bunk-house, or any friendly hail.
Creaking leather, clinking spurs, range sky blue,
Startled rabbits flashing across the trail before us—
Would sudden scent of sage-brush mean anything to you?
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LELAND DAVIS
Born in Texas in 1895, Leland Davies spent his boyhood in the Southwest and in Old Mexico. From the age of 17 to the age of 21 he was a magazine agent in Central Texas. Since then, at one time or another, he has been a salesman, soda-jerker, restaurant counterman, sailor, barge captain, hospital attendant and radio announcer. He has picked up his education with very little help from schools. In 1915 he went to New York City and lived for eight years as a Greenwich Villager. He came to Portland in 1923 and for eight years has been with Radio Station KWJJ as announcer and advertising representative. Poetry, the Nation, the American Mercury have been among the magazines that have printed his verse; and six
