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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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cut in a few of the houses ; butthe usual mode of entrance is by ladder to the second story, thenceinside by steps up and down. Some of the dwellings have isinglass,windows, and a few have doors hung on hinges. On each floor thereare several apartments. Mr. Gushing describes his entrance into this queer town asfollows : — I chanced to meet, over toward the river, an Indian. He wasbareheaded, his hair banged even with his eyebrows in front, anddone up in a neat knot behind, with long locks hanging down eitherside. He wore a red shirt and white cotton pantalets, slitted at thesides from the knees down so as to expose his bare legs, and raw-hide-soled moccasins. Strings of shell-beads around his neck, and aleather belt around his waist, into which were stuck a boomerangor two, completed his costume. Knitting-work in hand, he left hisband of dirty white and black sheep and snuffling goats in chargeof a wise-looking, grizzled-faced, bob-tailed mongrel cur, and came. MARVELS OF RACE. 189
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with a sort of shiililin- dug-trot toward the road, caUing out, Hai!hai! and extending his hand with a most good-natured smile.* I shook the proffered hand warmly, and said, Zuiii ? I go MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. E ! exclaimed the Indian, as he reverentially breathed on myhand and from his own, and then, with a nod of his head and a flingof his chin toward the still distant, smoky terraces, made his excla-mation more intelligible. I hastened on with all the speed I could scourge out of my obsti-nate, kicking mule, down the road to where the rivulet crossed it, andup again, nearer and nearer to the strange structures. Imagine numberless, long, box-shaped, adobe ranches, connectedwith one another in extended rows and squares, with others less andless numerous, piled up on them lengthwise and crosswise, in two,three, even six stories, each receding from the one below it like thesteps of a broken stair-flight, — as it were, a gigantic pyramidal mudhoney-comb with far outstretching base,

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