item: #1 of 41 id: 1049 author: Summerhayes, Martha title: Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman date: None words: 73365 flesch: 79 summary: I would like to see you and talk over old times. I had forgotten really how army men did look, I had been so long away. keywords: ambulance; apache; arizona; army; baby; boat; book; camp; captain; cavalry; colorado; company; country; day; days; desert; ehrenberg; eyes; fort; francisco; general; good; half; heat; home; house; husband; indian; jack; left; lieutenant; life; look; macdowell; major; man; men; miles; mind; morning; mrs; new; night; officers; people; place; post; quarters; river; road; room; san; soldiers; sort; things; thought; time; water; way; white; wife; women; years cache: 1049.txt plain text: 1049.txt item: #2 of 41 id: 10932 author: Palmer, Frederick title: Over the Pass date: None words: 117888 flesch: 85 summary: Jack Wingfield! said Jack, on his own account. The gloomier he was the better he went and the better Jack Wingfield liked him; which was Bob's way of interpreting Jack's instructions. keywords: answer; care; coming; day; desert; doctor; doge; door; ear; end; ewold; eyes; face; father; firio; galway; glance; god; going; good; half; hand; head; home; house; jack; jack wingfield; jag; jasper; jim; john; kind; know; leddy; life; look; man; mary; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; new; p.d; pass; pete; place; prather; right; rivers; room; rose; set; señor jack; silence; sir; smile; son; store; thing; thought; time; town; trail; turn; voice; want; water; way; wingfield; world cache: 10932.txt plain text: 10932.txt item: #3 of 41 id: 11226 author: Poston, Charles D. (Charles Debrille) title: Building a State in Apache Land date: None words: 17895 flesch: 65 summary: They built a house and corral on the south side of the Santa Cruz River, on the road from Tucson to Tubac, called the Canoa. One day twenty-five or thirty Mexicans rode into Tubac, and said the Apaches had made a raid on their ranches, and were carrying off some hundred head of horses and mules over the Babaquivera plain, intending to cross the Santa Cruz River between the Canoa and Tucson. keywords: americans; apaches; arizona; boundary; california; colorado; company; country; cruz; dollars; francisco; government; indians; land; line; mexican; mexico; new; river; san; santa; sonora; states; territory; time; tubac; united; yuma cache: 11226.txt plain text: 11226.txt item: #4 of 41 id: 13150 author: Kolb, E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) title: Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico date: None words: 84836 flesch: 80 summary: There was little water to be found, and in many ways it was just as inhospitable as the canyon. The boats, too, were somewhat unusual in design, having been carefully worked out by Galloway after much experience with the problem, and after building many boats. keywords: boat; camp; canyon; channel; colorado; colorado river; country; creek; current; day; days; distance; emery; end; evening; feet; find; foot; grand; green river; half; home; hour; land; left; line; making; man; men; miles; morning; mountains; near; night; old; picture; place; point; ranch; rapid; red; river; rock; run; sand; section; shore; stream; time; trail; trees; trip; walls; water; waves; way; work cache: 13150.txt plain text: 13150.txt item: #5 of 41 id: 13709 author: Lewis, Alfred Henry title: Wolfville Nights date: None words: 86086 flesch: 83 summary: An' I'm driven to concede that the put-back work of said party is like a romance; puttin' back's his speshulty. He can argue that the cattle kills themse'fs--sort o' commits sooicide inadvertent--an' if we-all trades up on him with the beef, he insists on his innocence, an' puts it up that his cuttin' in on the play after said cattle done slays themse'fs injures nobody but coyotes. keywords: aaron; ag'in; away; bar; bein; bill; black; boggs; bowlaigs; camp; cattle; cherokee; cloud; colonel; coyote; dan; dave; day; days; doc; dog; drink; easy; enright; evenin; eyes; folks; foot; game; gent; gets; goin'; good; gun; half; hand; head; heap; high; himse'f; hoss; injuns; jack; jennie; jerry; jest; lance; light; little; looks; loose; major; makes; man; mebby; mighty; moment; myse'f; nell; nothin'; onder; party; peets; phil; play; plenty; plumb; raven; red; round; sech; sharp; shore; silver; sort; squaw; stands; texas; thar; time; tom; trail; tucson; turns; war; way; white; wolfville; yere cache: 13709.txt plain text: 13709.txt item: #6 of 41 id: 14367 author: Wright, Harold Bell title: When A Man's A Man date: None words: 90702 flesch: 84 summary: I wanted to depend upon myself--to live as other men live, by my own strength and courage and work. You're a plumb wonder, young man. keywords: away; big; cowboy; cross; curly; day; dean; eyes; face; good; hand; head; helen; home; horse; joe; kitty; life; look; love; man; men; moment; mountain; nick; patches; phil; professor; ranch; reid; ride; riding; right; saddle; stranger; things; think; thought; time; triangle; way; wild; woman; work; world cache: 14367.txt plain text: 14367.txt item: #7 of 41 id: 16889 author: Morrow, Honoré title: The Enchanted Canyon date: None words: 113615 flesch: 90 summary: Mike, let me introduce Mr. Enoch Huntingdon of New York City. It's Enoch Huntingdon! Yes, Frank, it's he, replied Enoch. keywords: abbott; agnew; allen; boss; boy; brown; camp; canyon; che; curly; day; desert; diana; enoch; eyes; face; fire; forrester; fowler; frank; going; good; half; hands; harden; head; huntingdon; jonas; judge; know; left; life; little; long; look; mack; man; men; milton; miss; moment; morning; night; nodded; nucky; president; river; room; rose; seaton; secretary; thought; time; trail; trip; voice; water; way; woman; work; years cache: 16889.txt plain text: 16889.txt item: #8 of 41 id: 17487 author: Mindeleff, Cosmos title: Casa Grande Ruin Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318 date: None words: 12692 flesch: 66 summary: Map of Casa Grande group 298 LII. A series of precise measurements gives the following results: Outside eastern wall, at level 3 feet above center of depressed area adjoining the ruin on the east, 59 feet; western wall at same level, 59 feet 1 inch; northern and southern walls, at same level, 42 and 43 feet respectively. keywords: casa; casa grande; feet; grande; inches; level; opening; room; ruin; structure; wall cache: 17487.txt plain text: 17487.txt item: #9 of 41 id: 17488 author: Mindeleff, Cosmos title: The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-94, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 315-348 date: None words: 13721 flesch: 65 summary: ----------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+-----------+ Maximum authorized | 350 cubic | 750 cubic | 825 | 1 wood | | yards | feet | cubic feet | and 1 iron| | | | | | Performed by | 570 cubic | 919 cubic | 1,161 | 1 wood and| contractors | yards | feet | cubic feet | 2 iron | | | | | | keywords: arizona; casa; casa grande; contract; feet; grande; inches |; interior; report; ruin; secretary; walls; work; | stone; | | cache: 17488.txt plain text: 17488.txt item: #10 of 41 id: 18538 author: Smith, Dama Margaret title: I Married a Ranger date: None words: 48903 flesch: 86 summary: We were evidently expected, for when we reached the village the natives all turned out to see and be seen: brown children as innocent of clothing as when they first saw the light; fat, greasy squaws with babies on their backs; old men and women--all stared and gibbered at us. This is White Mountain, Chief Ranger here. keywords: baby; camp; canyon; chief; children; dance; day; days; desert; door; feet; girl; good; grand; head; high; home; hopi; horses; house; indian; left; life; look; man; men; miles; morning; mother; mountain; mule; navajo; new; night; park; people; place; ranger; ride; rim; rock; snake; tell; thought; time; trail; water; way; west; white; winess; women; work; years cache: 18538.txt plain text: 18538.txt item: #11 of 41 id: 18703 author: Stevenson, James title: Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466 date: None words: 11406 flesch: 87 summary: Small stones, chiefly quartz, basalt, and agate, used for smoothing and polishing pottery. Small smoothing stone mostly of quartzite, one or two only of basalt. keywords: articles; black; bowl; clay; collections; fig; form; handle; pottery; stone; tinaja; ware; water cache: 18703.txt plain text: 18703.txt item: #12 of 41 id: 19723 author: Mindeleff, Cosmos title: The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 date: None words: 55801 flesch: 70 summary: Niches in kiva walls 178 Nordenskiöld, G., cliff ruins classified by 92 --, cliff ruins described by 81 --, on an oval kiva 177 --, on chimney-like structures 188, 189 --, on kiva decoration 181 --, on Mesa Verde masonry 163 --, on openings in Mancos ruins 165 Nutria, a Zuñi summer village 92, 156 Ojo Caliente, a Zuñi summer village 92, 158 --, masonry of 159 Openings, absence of, in cliff houses 132 -- in Casa Blanca walls 109 -- in cliff kivas 125, 129, 175 -- in cliff-dwelling walls 123-124, 164, 197 -- in Mummy Cave ruin walls 114 O'Sullivan, T. H., Casa Blanca photographed by 80 Outlooks on restricted areas 149 -- or farming shelters discussed 142 Oven-like structure in cliff ruin 127 Ovens not an aboriginal feature 128 Pakashi-izini ruin in Del Muerto 98 Passageway in Casa Blanca 109 -- in cliff dwelling 100 Peaches, groves of, in Canyon de Chelly 88 -- introduced by Spaniards 88 Pescado, a Zuñi summer village 92, 156 Petroglyphs in cliff villages 138 Pictographs in cliff ruins 98, 103, 113, 118, 126, 133, 144, 152, 178-181 Plastering, effect of, on stonework 161 -- of cliff ruin-walls 118, 120, 121, 129, 140, 144, 149, 151, 160 -- of kiva walls 121, 176 Platforms of masonry connected with cliff ruins 132 Population of Casa Blanca 105 -- of cliff dwellings 98, 135, 196 -- of Pakashi-izini ruin 99 Pottery fragments iu Casa Blanca 111 Pueblo ruins classified 89 --, _see_ Cliff Dwellings. There is no evidence that the structure was ever inclosed in rectangular walls, as was the usual custom; in fact, the occurrence of other walls near it would apparently preclude such an arrangement. keywords: canyon; canyon de; cliff; cliff wall; feet; figure; ground; ground plan; illustration; inches; kiva; masonry; navaho; number; place; plan; point; pueblo; remains; rock; rooms; ruin; shows; site; structure; time; villages; wall cache: 19723.txt plain text: 19723.txt item: #13 of 41 id: 19867 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail; Or, The Fugitive Professor date: None words: 21642 flesch: 88 summary: He never allowed a chance for a contest with young Frank Merriwell to get past him. I had made up my mind to go on to-night, Merry answered, even before McGurvin told us that about Barzy Blunt. keywords: away; ballard; blunt; borrodaile; bradlaugh; chip; claim; clancy; frank; gold; happenchance; hill; mcgurvin; merriwell; merry; ore; porter; professor; trail; way cache: 19867.txt plain text: 19867.txt item: #14 of 41 id: 20382 author: Carson, Thomas title: Ranching, Sport and Travel date: None words: 72715 flesch: 75 summary: At every stopping-place he received an ovation, crowds of his Mussulman supporters and friends, among them apparently being chiefs and rajahs and other men of high degree, greeting him with much enthusiasm, which enthusiasm I learned was aroused by His Highness' endeavour towards the raising of the status of the Mohammedan College of Aligarh to that of a university. Many of our own hands were such men. keywords: amarillo; america; animals; arizona; calves; camp; capital; cattle; city; close; cold; company; country; course; cut; day; days; end; fact; feet; fish; game; good; great; head; herd; high; home; horses; house; immense; indians; kind; land; left; life; little; man; men; mexico; miles; new; night; open; pasture; people; place; position; ranch; range; river; rope; round; run; saddle; sea; shooting; south; state; steamer; steers; summer; tea; time; town; train; tree; visit; wagon; water; way; white; wild; winter; work; world; years cache: 20382.txt plain text: 20382.txt item: #15 of 41 id: 2070 author: Grey, Zane title: To the Last Man date: None words: 97860 flesch: 92 summary: I tell you, Ellen Jorth, declared the old man, thet Jean Isbel loves you--loves you turribly--an' he believes you're good. An', say, Ellen, don't think hard any more of thet Jean Isbel. keywords: aboot; black; blaisdell; blood; blue; bruce; cabin; colter; dad; daggs; dark; day; door; ellen; ellen jorth; eyes; face; father; girl; goin'; good; grass; greaves; half; hand; head; heah; horse; jean; jean isbel; jorth; left; life; long; look; love; man; men; mind; open; queen; reckon; rifle; right; rim; run; saw; sheep; shore; shot; thet; thought; time; trail; valley; voice; wal; way; wild; y'u cache: 2070.txt plain text: 2070.txt item: #16 of 41 id: 21219 author: Hill, Grace Livingston title: A Voice in the Wilderness date: None words: 104441 flesch: 84 summary: Never should that mean little meddling man see that his words had pierced her soul. Once more Margaret sang: Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide! keywords: boy; bud; course; day; door; eyes; face; father; forsythe; gardley; girl; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jasper; kemp; life; little; long; look; man; margaret; men; minister; mom; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; place; rogers; room; rosa; saw; school; set; tanner; teacher; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; wallis; way; west; woman; words cache: 21219.txt plain text: 21219.txt item: #17 of 41 id: 21841 author: Carson, James, Captain title: The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon; or, The Hermit of the Cave date: None words: 46854 flesch: 85 summary: TURNING THE TABLES--CONCLUSION 195 THE SADDLE BOYS IN THE GRAND CANYON CHAPTER I THE WORK OF THE WOLF PACK Hold up, Bob! Any signs of the lame yearling, Frank? Well, there seems to be something over yonder to the west; but the sage crops up, and interferes a little with my view. When he came to the new country where his father was interested with Frank's in mining ventures, Bob had brought his favorite Kentucky horse, a coal-black stallion known as Domino, and which vied with Frank's native Buckskin in good qualities. keywords: abajo; bob; boys; canyon; cave; charley; chum; cliff; day; eugene; eyes; face; find; frank; going; good; half; hand; hank; head; know; look; man; moqui; paper; place; professor; ranch; right; rock; saddle; tell; think; time; way cache: 21841.txt plain text: 21841.txt item: #18 of 41 id: 23691 author: Fewkes, Jesse Walter title: Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 date: None words: 110203 flesch: 65 summary: [RAINCLOUD SYMBOL] on Hopi pottery 694 [RAINCLOUD SYMBOL] on Sikyatki pottery 689, 690 RATTLESNAKE TANKS, ruins at 532 RED ROCKS, cliff houses of the 548-549 REPTILE figures on pottery 658, 671-677 RUINS of East Mesa discussed 585 [RUINS] of Tusayan 577 [RUINS], _see_ AWATOBI, HONANKI, PALATKI, SIKYATKI, _etc._ SACRIFICE among the Hopi 738 [SACRIFICE], _see_ OFFERING. Room _p_ has a remnant of a rear wall plastered to the face of the cliff. keywords: american; awatobi; bird; body; bowls; bureau; canyon; cavate; character; cliff; corn; decoration; design; doubt; dwellings; east; end; ethnology; evidence; feathers; feet; figure; find; floor; food; footnote; form; fragments; head; honanki; hopi; houses; illustration; lines; mesa; middle; mission; mortuary; mounds; number; objects; parallel; people; plate; point; pottery; prayer; present; pueblo; rectangular; red; report; rock; rooms; ruins; seventeenth; sikyatki; sikyatki pottery; similar; single; snake; specimens; stone; surface; symbols; tail; time; triangles; tusayan; valley; verde; village; walls; walpi; ware; water cache: 23691.txt plain text: 23691.txt item: #19 of 41 id: 2382 author: Mowry, Sylvester title: Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona date: None words: 14400 flesch: 62 summary: From 1757 down to 1820, the Spaniards and Mexicans continued to work many valuable mines near Barbacora, and the notes in my possession speak of many silver mines, most of which contained a percentage of gold. * The country bordering immediately the head of the Gulf of California, through which Gray was probably the first to penetrate, lies adjacent to the proposed Arizona Territory, but not a part of the same, being a portion of the State of Sonora. keywords: arizona; california; colorado; copper; country; gila; mexican; mexico; mines; mining; new; population; rio; river; san; santa; silver; sonora; territory; valley cache: 2382.txt plain text: 2382.txt item: #20 of 41 id: 27890 author: Edholm, Lizette M. title: The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure date: None words: 54475 flesch: 93 summary: When Bet came back triumphantly to the drawing room a few minutes later, Enid greeted her with a shake of her head: You certainly have a way with you, Bet Baxter. I tell you, but I think you girls are just too horrid trying to insinuate that I'm in love with Phil, protested Bet, her face flushing, her blue eyes snapping with anger. keywords: bet; boys; breckenridge; canyon; enid; eyes; face; find; girls; good; home; horse; indian; joy; judge; kie; kit; look; man; men; patten; professor; right; shirley; thing; time; tommy; treasure; way; wicks; work cache: 27890.txt plain text: 27890.txt item: #21 of 41 id: 28670 author: Woon, Basil title: Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer date: None words: 28758 flesch: 73 summary: There were few men in the old days in Phoenix, or, indeed, the entire Territory, who did not drink liquor, and lots of it. When these people come west in their comfortable Pullmans and discover nothing more interesting in the shape of Indians than a few old squaws selling trinkets and blankets on station platforms, as at Yuma; when they visit one of the famous old towns where in days gone by white men were wont to sleep with one eye and an ear open for marauding Indians, and find electric cars, modern office buildings, paved streets crowded with luxurious motors, and the inhabitants nonchalantly pursuing the even tenor of their ways garbed in habiliments strongly suggestive of Forty-fourth street and Broadway; when they come West and note these signs of an advancing and all-conquering civilization, I say, they invariably are disappointed. keywords: apaches; arizona; business; cady; california; cattle; city; company; country; days; dollars; fort; good; house; indians; life; man; men; mexican; miles; near; phoenix; place; ranch; river; san; sanford; state; territory; time; town; tucson; way; west; white; work; years; yuma cache: 28670.txt plain text: 28670.txt item: #22 of 41 id: 29485 author: Lewis, Alfred Henry title: Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories date: None words: 69463 flesch: 84 summary: He's p'intin' in from over Red Dog way, but I savvys from the wonderin' faces of them Red Dog sports that he's as new to them as us. 'Said banquet,' he explains, 'bein' in the nacher of a lunch to be held at high noon. keywords: ag'in; annalinda; bark; bein; bird; black; bland; boggs; book; bug; calls; camp; cherokee; chief; day; dead; doc; dog; drink; enright; evenin; eyes; feelin; folks; game; gent; goin'; good; gun; half; hand; havin'; head; heap; himse'f; house; jack; jennie; jest; licker; light; looks; love; makes; man; mebby; mighty; mike; missis; monte; moore; nell; nothin'; old; ontil; party; peets; person; plenty; plumb; professor; red; returns; round; rucker; sech; shore; shot; stage; texas; thar; time; track; tucson; turkey; turner; tutt; way; whar; wife; wolfville; yere cache: 29485.txt plain text: 29485.txt item: #23 of 41 id: 30686 author: Foster, Ethel Twycross title: Little Tales of The Desert date: None words: 6819 flesch: 88 summary: Mary was so pleased at the sight that she clapped her little hands in glee and cried, You dear, cute little thing! Can I help you, little girl? said a tiny voice near by, you are getting your pretty dress soiled and your hair will be full of sand. keywords: cactus; day; desert; father; illustration; jack; mary; mother; road cache: 30686.txt plain text: 30686.txt item: #24 of 41 id: 35071 author: Goldfrap, John Henry title: The Boy Scouts on the Range date: None words: 51998 flesch: 87 summary: At last Rob gave the word. yelled Rob deliriously, as he hurled his slight form straight against the monstrous hairy tower of rugged strength. keywords: agent; bill; blinky; boy; boys; cattle; clark; cloud; cow; eyes; face; feet; good; great; harkness; harry; head; horse; indian; instant; jennings; man; mayberry; merritt; moquis; place; ponies; pony; punchers; ranch; ranger; right; rob; round; scouts; snake; thought; time; tubby; way; white; young cache: 35071.txt plain text: 35071.txt item: #25 of 41 id: 37746 author: Marsland, Cora title: The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona date: None words: 74212 flesch: 90 summary: The officers had taken their leave, and the Claytons walked on ahead, leaving Kenneth Hastings to escort Esther Bright home. For many days, public attention had been centered upon Esther Bright, the new teacher in Gila. keywords: bright; carla; child; children; clayton; come; day; edith; esther; esther bright; eyes; face; father; gila; girl; god; good; hand; harding; hastings; head; heart; help; home; indian; jack; john; kelwin; kenneth; life; little; lord; love; man; men; miss; moment; mother; mrs; murphy; night; patrick; people; room; school; teacher; ter; time; voice; wathemah; way; woman; work; yer; yez cache: 37746.txt plain text: 37746.txt item: #26 of 41 id: 38064 author: Comalk-Hawk-Kih title: Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being the Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona date: None words: 57400 flesch: 82 summary: Nor do the slayers sing, but old men who in their day have slain Apaches. The word mah-kai (now translated doctor, or medicine-man) seems to have been applied in old time to every being capable of exerting magical or supernatural and mysterious power, from the Creator down; and it is easy to see how such use of the word would apparently establish the divine relationship and bolster the authority of the medicine men, while the charm of the tale would focus attention upon them. keywords: apaches; arrows; black; bow; boy; corn; day; deer; doctor; earth; father; good; home; kee; kill; left; mahkai; man; morning; mountain; night; people; pimas; place; saw; seeven; story; sun; time; toy; vandaih; want; water; way; white; woman cache: 38064.txt plain text: 38064.txt item: #27 of 41 id: 39433 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends date: None words: 73029 flesch: 91 summary: Bill let Frank alone until after dinner. Throughout the night Frank Merriwell lay ensconced behind some sheltering rocks in a deep ravine, where he had been trapped by the ruffians in the employ of the mining trust, who were determined to wrest from him the precious papers they believed to be in his possession. keywords: arlington; bart; big; bill; boxer; boy; burt; burt l.; cimarron; dog; door; eyes; face; fellow; frank; frank merriwell; girl; good; hand; head; heap; horse; joe; june; know; little; look; man; manner; men; merriwell; merry; monte; pablo; place; ready; right; room; ruffians; saw; shoot; standish; sure; time; tracy; way; young cache: 39433.txt plain text: 39433.txt item: #28 of 41 id: 39599 author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title: The Little Colonel in Arizona date: None words: 72584 flesch: 86 summary: There is little time for fishing now, You must take father's place behind the plough.' Mrs. Walton had spoken truly when she said that Little girls begin very early sometimes to dream about that far-away land of Romance. keywords: bees; book; boy; coming; day; days; desert; door; ellestad; eyes; face; girl; good; half; head; holland; home; house; indian; jack; joyce; lee; left; life; lloyd; look; mary; morning; mother; mrs; new; people; phil; place; pony; ranch; right; road; room; school; story; tent; things; think; thought; time; want; ware; water; way; white; wigwam; work cache: 39599.txt plain text: 39599.txt item: #29 of 41 id: 39937 author: Hooker, Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) title: The Long Dim Trail date: None words: 111798 flesch: 86 summary: She saw him jump from his horse and knock at the door--Saw Powell open that door, and then--she saw a tiny red stream trickling across the wooden floor. I'm sorry I spoke, old man, answered the doctor. keywords: arizona; boss; boy; boys; bronco; cattle; cañon; chappo; child; cross; day; diamond; doctor; doctor powell; donnie; door; eyes; face; feet; glendon; good; hand; hasayampa; head; holy; home; horse; husband; jack; juan; katherine; king; left; life; limber; look; man; men; mexican; money; mother; mrs; nell; paddy; peanut; place; pony; powell; ranch; right; roarer; room; saddle; saw; springs; thar; thought; time; town; trail; traynor; voice; walton; way; white; wife; willcox; woman; work; years cache: 39937.txt plain text: 39937.txt item: #30 of 41 id: 40262 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia date: None words: 89919 flesch: 91 summary: Steady, Brad, old man! warned Dick. Some of them had bad records, and yet they had served Frank Merriwell faithfully in guarding his mine, the Queen Mystery, against those who tried to wrest it from him by force and fraud. keywords: abe; bart; boy; brad; brother; buckhart; cap'n; curry; dan; dick; door; eyes; face; felicia; find; frank; good; hand; head; hodge; horse; joe; little; look; man; mebbe; men; merriwell; merry; morgan; place; right; room; ruffians; sailor; tell; think; thought; time; valley; voice; way; wiley; yer; yere cache: 40262.txt plain text: 40262.txt item: #31 of 41 id: 40277 author: Brandeis, Madeline title: The Little Indian Weaver date: None words: 12310 flesch: 91 summary: He said: I hear you good to little Bah. So he read-- Bah, Bah Indian girl, Have you any bread? Yes sir, yes sir, That's what I was fed. keywords: bah; billy; blanket; boy; doll; father; illustration; indian; mother; white cache: 40277.txt plain text: 40277.txt item: #32 of 41 id: 41447 author: Pocock, Roger title: Curly: A Tale of the Arizona Desert date: None words: 73018 flesch: 90 summary: I testified that old man Ryan died a natural death, because it would have been completely unnatural for Balshannon to miss him at five paces. Just to the east of the home inhabited by these ladies occurs the Jim Crow Mine, the same being the very place where the robbers once had breakfast with old man Ryan, making him pay the bill, as aforesaid, which was seventy-five thousand dollars, and annoying. keywords: balshannon; boys; buck; camp; cayn't; chalkeye; city; cross; curly; day; dead; desert; door; eyes; face; father; fire; good; grave; gun; guns; hand; holy; home; horse; jim; lady; lay; left; look; lot; man; marshal; mccalmont; men; miss; people; play; range; right; robbers; round; ryan; saddle; shot; son; sort; talk; time; town; trail; wall; want; water; way; white; young cache: 41447.txt plain text: 41447.txt item: #33 of 41 id: 42175 author: Fewkes, Jesse Walter title: The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo date: None words: 9424 flesch: 75 summary: More light will doubtless be shed on the significance of the sun-ladder prayer-offerings when we know more of the ceremonies about the _Tûñtai_ altars. The Winter Solstice Ceremony at Walpi_ (_American Anthropologist_, vol. keywords: altar; asa; chief; clans; east; hano; hopi; meal; mesa; people; pueblo; snake; tewa; time; towa; walpi; women cache: 42175.txt plain text: 42175.txt item: #34 of 41 id: 47087 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the Comet date: None words: 33794 flesch: 91 summary: McKibben and Motor Matt were the best of friends, and McKibben had told Matt to take the red roadster out for exercise whenever he felt like it. He was standing up most of the time, however, leaning over the back of the seat in front of him, and telling Motor Matt how to drive the car. keywords: -frank; away; boys; car; chub; clip; clipperton; dangerfield; fresnay; good; hand; man; matt; mckibben; merriwell; money; motor; motor matt; note; pete; phoenix; pima; pima pete; prescott; road; sheriff; short; time; way; welcome cache: 47087.txt plain text: 47087.txt item: #35 of 41 id: 47491 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Red Flyer; or, On the High Gear Motor Stories Thrilling Adventure Motor Fiction No. 6, April 3, 1909 date: None words: 34411 flesch: 92 summary: Is there a boy, therefore, who will not be intensely interested in the adventures of Motor Matt, as he is familiarly called by his comrades? Boys, you have never read anything half so exciting, half so humorous and entertaining as the first story listed for publication in this line, called =Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel=. Its fame is bound to spread like wildfire, causing the biggest demand for the other numbers in this line, that was ever heard of in the history of this class of literature. =Carl Pretzel=, a cheerful and rollicking German lad, who is led by a fortunate accident to hook up with Motor Matt in double harness. keywords: box; boy; brisco; car; carl; chapter; come; dat; der; dis; dot; eliza; fairview; flier; frank; good; hotel; josh; know; legree; little; man; matt; motor matt; o'grady; place; red; right; road; runabout; spangler; ter; time; tom; uncle; vas; way; yez; yous cache: 47491.txt plain text: 47491.txt item: #36 of 41 id: 57017 author: Overton, Gwendolen title: The heritage of unrest date: None words: 87035 flesch: 86 summary: On a day when the mercury registered 120 degrees, Felipa Landor drove into the camp. It had been when he had first learned that Felipa Landor had gone East for two years; and the Mexican had been very young and very pretty, also very bad. keywords: apache; away; big; black; boy; brewster; cairness; camp; children; course; day; days; door; ellton; end; eyes; face; felipa; fire; general; good; ground; half; hand; head; horse; husband; indians; kirby; landor; lawton; left; life; look; man; matter; men; moment; mrs; new; night; officer; place; post; ranch; room; set; sort; stone; taylor; thing; thought; time; troops; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; years cache: 57017.txt plain text: 57017.txt item: #37 of 41 id: 60795 author: Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry) title: Arizona Argonauts date: None words: 36428 flesch: 88 summary: Mackintavers gave Murray a significant glance, followed by a wink. Doctor! Is it true--what you said about Doctor Murray? For a moment Scudder looked into her eyes as though reading what lay behind her eagerness, her compassionate words. keywords: bill; car; claire; deadoak; desert; doctor; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; hobbs; hotel; lee; look; mackintavers; man; men; murray; palms; piute; place; right; room; sandy; scudder; time; tom; tomkins; valley; way; willyum cache: 60795.txt plain text: 60795.txt item: #38 of 41 id: 753 author: White, Stewart Edward title: Arizona Nights date: None words: 66872 flesch: 90 summary: They were good men, addicted to the grass-rope, the double cinch, and the ox-bow stirrup. I've got good men here ready to take the job, but no one who knows the country south. keywords: buck; calf; cattle; cattleman; country; course; cow; cut; day; days; denton; desert; dust; end; estrella; eyes; feet; fire; good; gun; half; hand; head; herd; home; horses; jed; johnson; know; left; little; look; man; men; moment; mountains; parker; pete; pony; ranch; right; round; saw; schwartz; senor; senor johnson; sun; texas; thought; time; trail; water; way; woman; work cache: 753.txt plain text: 753.txt item: #39 of 41 id: 756 author: Munk, J. A. (Joseph Amasa) title: Arizona Sketches date: None words: 37084 flesch: 69 summary: Because of the scarcity of water the range country is sparsely settled and always will be until more water is provided by artificial means for irrigation. Only by extreme siccity is such land possible when more water rises in evaporation than falls by precipitation. keywords: air; arizona; calf; canon; cattle; change; cliff; climate; colorado; country; day; desert; distance; feet; good; grand; grass; ground; home; horses; house; indians; iron; land; life; man; men; meteorite; miles; mountain; nature; new; people; ranch; range; river; road; rocks; spring; time; valley; water; work; years cache: 756.txt plain text: 756.txt item: #40 of 41 id: 763 author: Murray, John title: The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona; Novelized from Edmund Day's Melodrama date: None words: 66327 flesch: 88 summary: When Lyman, the old foreman of the Sweetwater resigned, Jack Payson promoted Sage-brush, although next to Bud Lane he was at the time the youngest man in the outfit. Dick Lane, or Jack Payson, for that matter, in all save the adventitious points of education and culture was the higher type of manhood, and Jack, at least, if not poor Dick, could hold his own in mental and artistic perception with the brightest, most cultured of Harvard graduates. keywords: allen; apaches; boys; brush; buck; bud; day; desert; dick; dick lane; echo; eyes; face; feet; fresno; girl; goin'; good; gun; half; hand; head; home; hoover; horse; jack; jack payson; know; lane; life; love; low; man; mckee; men; money; mrs; new; parenthesis; payson; peruna; polly; ranch; right; sage; sheriff; slim; sweetwater; terrill; thought; time; trail; water; way cache: 763.txt plain text: 763.txt item: #41 of 41 id: 9661 author: McClintock, James H. title: Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert date: None words: 100216 flesch: 68 summary: Chapter Sixteen Little Colorado Settlements Genesis of St. Johns One of the most remarkable of Arizona settlements is St. Johns, 58 miles southeast of Holbrook, its railroad station. The United Order principle was used, with varying degrees of relative success, in a number of northern Arizona settlements, especially in the early camps on the lower Little Colorado, as noted elsewhere. keywords: apache; arizona; battalion; brigham; california; camp; canyon; chapter; church; city; colorado; colorado river; company; country; creek; crossing; david; days; early; east; est; expedition; families; feet; ferry; following; fort; general; george; gila; gila valley; good; hamblin; home; hopi; illustration; indians; james; january; john; jones; joseph; july; lake; land; lee; left; line; little; man; march; mesa; mexican; mexico; miles; mormon; mormon battalion; mormon settlement; mountains; mouth; muddy; navajo; near; nevada; new; number; order; party; pedro; people; photo; pioneer; place; point; powell; present; president; railroad; river; river valley; road; route; saints; salt; salt river; san; santa; settlement; settlers; smith; snowflake; southern; southward; southwest; springs; stake; states; thatcher; thomas; time; united; utah; valley; virgin; water; way; work; years; young cache: 9661.txt plain text: 9661.txt