| 词汇 | picketwire |
| 词源 | Picketwire. James Michener explains this river’s colorful name in Centennial (1974): “At the end of the first full day in Colorado they came to the Picketwire, the western river with the most delicate name. It was properly El Rio de Las Animas Perdido en Purgatorio. In Coronado’s time three difficult and greedy Spanish soldiers had revolted and struck out on their own to find the cities of gold. Sometime later the main body of explorers came upon them, naked and riddled with arrows, and one of the priests explained solemnly, ‘God struck them down, using Indians as his agents, and for their disobedience their souls remain in purgatory.’ The River of the Souls Lost in Purgatory! French trappers had shortened it to Purgatoire, and practical men from Indiana and Tennessee, adapting the sound to their own tongue, called it Picketwire.” |
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