Big Run huddled among tall cottonwoods in a shallow hollow.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
About it on all sides was the sweep of grey desert; in the shade of its cottonwoods, along its thicket of willows, was a modicum of greenness and coolness; its ugly houses like toads squatting in the shade had an air of jeering at the wastes of sand and scrub.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
Suddenly the young man caught the sound of an automobile coasting down the long slide from the three cottonwoods, and turned to see a young girl in a shining gray car gliding down into the edge of the shade.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter