What to see in America . uffled squaws. The stadium where the spectacle is stagedoccupies several acres and has grandstands which seat tensof thousands of spectators. This three-day frontier carnivalhas a national reputation. It closes with the wild horse race,for which unbroken range horses, ignorant of *leather, arefurnished by the management. The festival is a page out ofhistory — a scene from the vanishing West — and there areabundant thrills and reminders of the time when Pendletonwas the woolliest of all the settlements in the Northwest. At Hot Lake, sixty miles to the southeast, is a sp
What to see in America . uffled squaws. The stadium where the spectacle is stagedoccupies several acres and has grandstands which seat tensof thousands of spectators. This three-day frontier carnivalhas a national reputation. It closes with the wild horse race,for which unbroken range horses, ignorant of *leather, arefurnished by the management. The festival is a page out ofhistory — a scene from the vanishing West — and there areabundant thrills and reminders of the time when Pendletonwas the woolliest of all the settlements in the Northwest. At Hot Lake, sixty miles to the southeast, is a spring ofalmost boiling water which issues from the base of aneminence seven hundred feet high and pours more than amfllion gallons daily into the lake. The temperature isone hundred and ninety-six degrees, and this is the hottestnatural spring known. Hot Lake Springs were the redmens sanatorium. Wheat is one of Oregons principal crops, and most of itis raised by dry farming in the eastern part of the state. Oregon 513. The southeasternmostof Oregons counties isnoteworthy because of itsgreat size. It contains atenth of the states area,and is larger than Mas-sachusetts. Nearly halfof it is still unappropri-ated public lands. Lake County, on themiddle southern borderof the state, is a regionof scenic curiosities. Atone spot is a cluster ofsprings, the largest ofwhich flows from an ap-erture nearly two hun-dred feet across. Theyform the Anna River, which winds through the plains and enters the north end of Summer Lake. Fossilized remains of the three-toed horse, the mastodon, and other extinct creatures of the early geological periods are found in the vast plains that once were lake beds. In the heavy forests of the mountain ranges are bear, deer, cougar, and wild cat. There are more bear here than in any2l Glacier on Mt. Hood
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