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Land of (the) Little Sticks
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a sub-arctic zone of stunted spruce and dwarf willow lying between the forests and the Barren Grounds in northern Canada.
Quotations
1896
No man may consider himself an expert until he has driven dogs and handled a sledge over such country as that approaching the Land of the Little Sticks.
1922
And it had swept south across the musk-ox pastures, across the desolate tundra, and the caribou-moss, and all the Land of Little Sticks. . . .
1965
Urged by the high suns of May, the snow retreats through the land of the Little Sticks and the caribou pour out on the tundra. . . .