Thirty years on the frontier . ic, andtall buildings rose majestically on either the wind sweeps through the mountainpass and the dust storms darken the sky fordays at a time. Like all other desert regionsthe chief boast of its inhabitants is climateand *Hhis exceptionally bad weather onlyknown heretofore to the oldest settler growsirksome when one has heard it five hundredtimes in like regions. Around and about ElPaso for three hundred miles north, south,east, and west, is desert, and to those whohave never seen a desert country it is sur-prising how all conditions of life are change
Thirty years on the frontier . ic, andtall buildings rose majestically on either the wind sweeps through the mountainpass and the dust storms darken the sky fordays at a time. Like all other desert regionsthe chief boast of its inhabitants is climateand *Hhis exceptionally bad weather onlyknown heretofore to the oldest settler growsirksome when one has heard it five hundredtimes in like regions. Around and about ElPaso for three hundred miles north, south,east, and west, is desert, and to those whohave never seen a desert country it is sur-prising how all conditions of life are conditions are harder than in humidcountries. In our northern land betweenCanada and the Gulf, that which sustains lifegrows in abundance and few people there arewho know what it is to be hungry. But herein El Paso there are many of the poorerclasses who actually suffer for something toeat. Within thirty minutes the entire scene hadchanged. I had crossed the river and was inEl Paso del Norte, on the Mexican side of the. We Saw Smoke Signals (page 187). THIRTY YEARS ON THE FRONTIER. 185 Rio Grande. Narrow lane-like streets, whiteadobe buildings with heavily grated windowsmake the stranger feel that he has intrudedon a convention of county jails. In half anhour I had gone backward three , dark-browed figures walked thestreets with Spanish cloak or serape woundmajestically around them, donkeys laden withwood, peddlers with hogskins filled withpulque, strangely attired Mexicans, all form-ed a weird street scene not soon to be for-gotten. It was on the plaza here that GeneralBonito Juarez camped his little force of 150men while he went to Washington to appealto this government to enforce the Monroedoctrine in the midst of our own the American ultimatum went forth toFrance, Napoleon III withdrew his Frenchtroops. Then Juarez marched on to the Cityof Mexico gathering strength as he unfortunate Maximilian fell into hishands and was execut
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