Colorado, the Queen Jewel of the Rockies: A Description of Its Climate and of Its Mountains, Rivers, Forests and Valleys; an Account of Its Explorers; a Review of Its Indians--past and Present; a Survey of Its Industries, with Some Reference to what it Offers of Delight to the Automobilist, Traveller, Sportsman and Health Seeker; Together with a Brief Resume of Its Influence Upon Writers and Artists, and a Short Account of Its Problems and how Met, and of Its Inexhaustible Resources and Their DevelopmentPage Company, 1918 - 389 pàgines |
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Colorado, the Queen Jewel of the Rockies: A Description of Its Climate and ... Mae Lacy Baggs Visualització completa - 1918 |
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Pàgina 352 - A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray, A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair, Upon whose bosom snow has lain, Who intimately lives with rain.
Pàgina 72 - A flexible felt hat and moccasins clothe his extremities. Over his left shoulder and under his right arm hang his powder-horn and bullet-pouch, in which he carries his balls, flint and steel, and odds and ends of all kinds. Round the waist...
Pàgina 72 - ... steel, and odds and ends of all kinds. Round the waist is a belt, in which is stuck a large butcher-knife in a sheath of buffalo-hide, made fast to the belt by a chain or guard of steel; which also supports a little buckskin case containing a whetstone. A tomahawk is also often added; and, of course, a long heavy rifle is part and parcel of his equipment.
Pàgina 74 - These oxen are of the bigness and colour of our bulls, but their bones are not so great. They have a great bunch upon their fore-shoulder, and more hair on their fore part than on their hinder part, and it is like wool. They have as it were an horse-mane upon their backbone, and much hair and very long from their knees downward. They have great tufts of hair hanging down...
Pàgina 52 - ... the sublimity of the prospect below. The unbounded prairie was overhung with clouds, which appeared like the ocean in a storm ; wave piled on wave and foaming, whilst the sky was perfectly clear where we were.
Pàgina 75 - ... the camel. They push with their horns, they run, they overtake and kill a horse when they are in their rage and anger. Finally, it is a foul and fierce beast of countenance and form of body.
Pàgina 181 - City, shall be to provide the best and most efficient means of imparting to young men and women on equal terms, a liberal education and thorough knowledge of the different branches of literature, the arts and sciences, with their varied applications.
Pàgina 76 - Small columns of dust were occasionally wafted by the wind from bulls that were pawing the earth, and rolling; the interest of action was also communicated to the scene, by the unwieldy playfulness of some individuals, that the eye would occasionally rest upon, their real or affected combats, or by the slow or rapid progress of others to and from their watering places. On the distant bluffs, individuals were constantly disappearing, whilst others were presenting themselves to our view, until, as...
Pàgina 74 - Cattle come as far as this. I have seen them three times and eaten of their meat. I think they are about the size of those of Spain. They have small horns like those of Morocco, and the hair long and flocky like that of the merino.
Pàgina 60 - By the temperature of boiling water, our elevation here was 10,430 feet; and still the pine forest continued, and grass was good. In the afternoon, we continued our road — occasionally through open pines, with a very gradual ascent. We surprised a herd of buffalo, enjoying the shade at a small lake among the pines; and they made the dry branches crack, as they broke through the woods. In a ride of about three-quarters of an hour, and having ascended perhaps 800 feet, we reached the SUMMIT OF THE...