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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III. THE MEXICANS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN TEEEI- TOEIES. Characteristics of Sierra Blanca and Baldy Peak—The Plazas of Conejos—A Polite Alcalde—Adobe Architecture—An Unfavorable View of El Gringo—The Superstitious Rites of the Penitentes—A Modern Crucifixion—The Melodious Voices of the Seiioritas. Seen from the plain near Fort Garland, Sierra Blanca and Baldy Peak loom up romantically. The upper ridge of the former is broken into several pinnacles with gentle curves between, and its sides are furrowed with deep hollows steeped in the nebulous haze of the clouds. Baldy is almost a pyramid, with barren walls that end in a sharp point twelve thousand feet high, cloven by transverse fissures, in which glaring masses of snow lie until the middle of June. The farther we retreated from them the nearer they appeared to be ; and two days after we left Garland, when they were thirty miles distant, they seemed larger and more distinct than when we were within five miles of their bases. Fifty miles is as a stone's throw, and a person unused to the delusive effects of the atmosphere might readily be induced to attempt a walk of twenty-five miles in ten minutes. Continuing in a southerly course from Blanca, a range of peaks extends, so uniform in their elevation and shape that it is not easy to realize how high they are. But among them are many that soar eleven thousand feet, and a few that are not far short of thirteen thousand. The eye follows them for nearly twenty miles, finding inexhaustible beauties in their soft outlines, the pine and fir- strewn buttresses, and the strange play of light and shadow that dyes them now a purple, then an unfathomable blue, and, toward morning, a hue like that of an opal held up to the sun. But no one can understand the majesty and wonders of...

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A-Saddle in the Wild West - A Glimpse of Travel among the Mountains, Lava Beds, Sand Deserts... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. A-Saddle in the Wild West - A Glimpse of Travel among the Mountains, Lava Beds, Sand Deserts... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future. Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.

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