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  • Who but a Yankee would swap the murky "Purgatoire" for

    Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

  • Walking along the drought-afflicted and shrunken Purgatoire River, we had an unusually good look at the longest documented dinosaur trackway in North America.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Purgatoire by Johnny D. Boggs - I had never heard tell of this western author until a few weeks ago when he did an impromptu interview on Diabolical Radio.

    Chasing Tale (Again) in February 2010

  • Walking along the drought-afflicted and shrunken Purgatoire River, we had an unusually good look at the longest documented dinosaur trackway in North America.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Walking along the drought-afflicted and shrunken Purgatoire River, we had an unusually good look at the longest documented dinosaur trackway in North America.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Walking along the drought-afflicted and shrunken Purgatoire River, we had an unusually good look at the longest documented dinosaur trackway in North America.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • One night he felt the country was too rough for evening travel so he camped by the Purgatoire River, or Picketwire, as the cowboys called it.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • One night he felt the country was too rough for evening travel so he camped by the Purgatoire River, or Picketwire, as the cowboys called it.

    Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

  • French trappers had shortened it to the Purgatoire, and practical men from Indiana and Tennessee, adapting the sound to their own tongue, called it Picketwire.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • WE have just come in from a drive to the Purgatoire with Colonel

    Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

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