Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Guide to the Pacific Coast: Santa Fé Route : California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas |
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Page 15 - Death was a monarch, and men bowed down and worshiped him. Blood ran In rivulets. The guerrillas were unerring shots with revolvers, and excellent horsemen. General Lane saved himself by flight; General Collamore took refuge in a well, and died there. Poor Collamore! He should have kept away from the well, upon the principle that actuated the mother who had no objection to her boy's learning how to swim, if he didn't go near the water.
Page 15 - Journal, Trask of the State Journal, hadn't time even to write their obituaries. Two camps of instruction for white and negro soldiers, on Massachusetts street (of course), were surrounded and all their occupants killed. Every hotel, except the City Hotel, was burned. Other property, valued at two million dollars, was also fired and consumed. . . . . Massachusetts street was made a mass of smouldering ruins. Sometimes there is a great deal in a name— in this instance more than is generally the...
Page 173 - The whole number of persons in the whole southern half of the State (where thousands sleep all summer on the open ground) injured by snakes and poisonous reptiles, animals, etc., in the last ten years is not equal to the number killed by lightning alone in one year in one county in many Eastern States.
Page 112 - Away up there the mountain trout flashes undisturbed in the hissing brook, and the call of the mountain quail rings from the shady glen where the grizzly bear yet dozes away the day, secure as in the olden time. From the bristling points where the lilac and manzanita light up the dark hue of the surrounding chaparral the deer yet looks down upon the plain from which the antelope has long been driven ; while on the lofty ridges that lie in such clear outline against the distant sky the mountain sheep...
Page 15 - Shelby and his Men," etc., gives the number at 300. We copy the following statement from Wilder's Annals, page 371: About daylight on the morning of August 21, 1863, Quantrill, with three hundred men, dashed into the streets of Lawrence, Kansas. Flame and bullet, waste and pillage, terror and despair were everywhere. Two hundred were killed. Death was a monarch, and men bowed down and worshipped him. Blood ran in rivulets. The guerrillas were unerring shots with revolvers, and excellent horsemen....
Page 120 - About the last part of May or the first part of June the train of seventy-five wagons left Bethel for the western coast.
Page 174 - ... modestly below all these; little cream-colored flowers on slender scapes look skyward on every side; while others of purer white with every variety of petal crowd up among them. Standing now upon some hillside that commands miles of landscape, one is dazzled with a blaze of color, from acres and acres of pink, great fields of violets, vast reaches of blue, endless sweeps of white.
Page 179 - Range, is passed, and the train climbs the eastern slope and passes through Raton tunnel. DINNER at the town of Raton. SUPPER at the town of LAS VEGAS, whence a branch line of six miles runs to the LAS VEGAS HOT SPRINGS. Beyond Las Vegas is passed the Glorieta Range, and immediately beyond this is the station of LAMY, whence a branch line of 17 miles goes up to the city of SANTA Fls.
Page 143 - Along the edges the plains and valleys break into low hills covered with thin grayish-green brush, and the little hollows between them are often filled with prickly-pear, or the still more forbidding cholla cactus, as high as one's head. And often these low hills are themselves hard and stony, and covered with cactus, and often are only concretions of cobble-stones, with which the intervening hollows are also filled.
Page 142 - ... the telegraph to distant Kartoom. There are the canals, the Sweet-Water that runs from Cairo and makes life on the Isthmus possible, and the network of irrigating canals and system of ditches, which have not only transformed the Delta, but have changed its climate, increasing enormously the rainfall. No one who has not seen it can have any conception of the magnitude of this irrigation by canals which all draw water from the Nile, nor of the immense number of laborers necessary to keep the canals...