. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. Overland journeys to the Pacific; Agriculture. ON THE GREAT SANDY DESERT. 163 The savages tried civilized life for a season, but soon grew dis- gusted with it and returned to their former modes of living; but not till after they had set on fire all the combustible mate- rial of the fort, the roofless domiciles inside of which looked cheerlessly over its gray walls. Sad were the thou
. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. Overland journeys to the Pacific; Agriculture. ON THE GREAT SANDY DESERT. 163 The savages tried civilized life for a season, but soon grew dis- gusted with it and returned to their former modes of living; but not till after they had set on fire all the combustible mate- rial of the fort, the roofless domiciles inside of which looked cheerlessly over its gray walls. Sad were the thoughts which the sight of this lone and dismantled fortress raised, as in silent isolation it stood on this once blooming oasis of the desert. Prowling coyotes, venomous reptiles, and those wretched imi-. The Kuins ( tations of humanity, the Diggers, now lay claim to those walls which once formed an abiding place for civilized people. Thorns and dry, withered weeds now covered the once verdant fields, which, for want of irrigation, were now returning to their original sterility, and the whole valley presented a scene dismal and desolate in the extreme. I give a sketch of these ruins, made from memory and my. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kenderdine, Thaddeus S. Newton, Pa. [Philadelphia, Press of Globe printing house]
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