At her head was the trunk of a big old cottonwood, and Fetchen lay about ten feet to one side, Burr the same distance on the other.

And if he sat drawing Old Mother as she shone in the widest fork of the biggest dead cottonwood, then the chances were good that he'd stay awake.

When he finally got to the bottom of the hill, Weeyum found hisself a big cottonwood and hunkered down under it.

A quickening breeze, risen after the sunset calm, rattled the leaves of the big cottonwood that stood above the camp.

So we laid it out between us to race to a big old cottonwood we could see away up ahead, maybe three-quarters of a mile off.

The three deer-headed humans stepped up from the gully to stand beside the big cottonwood.

Jupiter was standing under the biggest cottonwood, contentedly chewing his cud.

They were camped on a grassy bench alongside the creek and under some big old cottonwoods.

There were big old cottonwoods and willows along the creek, and there was water.

A big old cottonwood was gone, and in its place @,vere several seedlings.