. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . whichshuts off that most dreadful of deserts from the garden of theworld, and were tenderly nursed to health at the hacienda ofa courtly Spaniard. Mr. Brier had wasted from one hundredand seventy-five pounds to seventy-five, and the others inproportion. When I saw him last he was a hale old man ofseventy-five, cheerful and active, but with strange furrows inhis face to tell of those by-gone sufferings. His heroic littlewife was still living, and the boys, who had had a bitter ex 42 SOME STRANGE CORNERS OF OUR COUNTRY. per
. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . whichshuts off that most dreadful of deserts from the garden of theworld, and were tenderly nursed to health at the hacienda ofa courtly Spaniard. Mr. Brier had wasted from one hundredand seventy-five pounds to seventy-five, and the others inproportion. When I saw him last he was a hale old man ofseventy-five, cheerful and active, but with strange furrows inhis face to tell of those by-gone sufferings. His heroic littlewife was still living, and the boys, who had had a bitter ex 42 SOME STRANGE CORNERS OF OUR COUNTRY. perience such as perhaps no other boys ever siuvived, arestalwart men. The Great American Desert reaches from Idaho to theGulf of California and down into Mexico; and embracesportions of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Aiizona, andCalifornia. There have been numerous schemes to reclaimparts of it—even to turning the Colorado River into itssouthern basins—but all the ingenuity of man will neverchange most of it from the irredeemable and fearful wil-derness it is iff »-** IV. THE RATTLESNAKE DANCE
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