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Article: MUSKRATS BRIDGED A MYTH-TO-REALITY GAP FOR THIS YOUNGSTER.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2005
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Byline: Gary Gerhardt, Rocky Mountain News
One of the first wild animals that fascinated me was the muskrat.
Pretty pathetic, huh?
But when I was in early grade school and armed with a library card, I kept checking out Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.
The story (and undoubtedly the illustrations) captured my imagination, lifting the setting from the lush English
riverbank to a very ordinary Colorado creek (or crick, as we called it) that ran through our family farm south of Louisville.
The creek probably was 2 or 3 feet deep, 4 or 5 feet wide, usually had about a foot of water in it and was dotted with water ...