. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . 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 cros
. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . 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 of its giimmest recesses. The first scientific exploration of this deadly area was Lieu-tenant Wheelers United States survey in the early fifties; and. pUBUG
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