. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . ^are pure-blooded Indians, but their skins are very light, theirhair almost tow-color, and their eyes red. The people ofZuni also make the handsomest pottery of aU the Pueblos;and some of their large old water-jars, painted with strangefigures of elk and other animals, are really valuable. Thebest way to get to Zuni is from the station of Gallup, wherecarriages and diivers can be procured. The road is too easilylost for the stranger to undertake it alone; but the tirelesshorses of the country cover the lonely miles in a f
. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . ^are pure-blooded Indians, but their skins are very light, theirhair almost tow-color, and their eyes red. The people ofZuni also make the handsomest pottery of aU the Pueblos;and some of their large old water-jars, painted with strangefigures of elk and other animals, are really valuable. Thebest way to get to Zuni is from the station of Gallup, wherecarriages and diivers can be procured. The road is too easilylost for the stranger to undertake it alone; but the tirelesshorses of the country cover the lonely miles in a few hours. in. THE A3IERICAN !HE Great Ainerican Desert was almost betterknown a generation ago than it is to-day. Thenthousands of the hardy Argonauts had tra-versed that fearful waste on foot with theirdawdhng ox-teams, and hundreds of them had left theirbones to bleach in that thiisty land. The survivors of thosedeadly jom-neys had a very definite idea of what that desertwas; but now that we can roll across it in a day in Pull-man palace-cars, its real—and still existing—horrors arelargely forgotten. I have walked its hideous length aloneand wounded, and realize something more of it from thatthan a gieat many railroad journeys across it since have toldme. Now every transcontinental railroad crosses the gi*eatdesert whose vast, arid waste stretches up and down the con-tinent, west of the Rocky Mountains, for nearly two thousandmiles. The northern routes cut its least gruesome parts;but the two which traverse its southern half—the Atlanticand Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Raiboad—pierce some
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