item: #1 of 42 id: 12734 author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) title: The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest date: None words: 49781 flesch: 90 summary: Once more Tom Reade had brought his work within sight of Lineville. Tom, what on earth----- Tom Reade was already a hundred yards away, running in amid the brush. keywords: bad; black; blaisdell; camp; chief; dave; engineer; field; fulsbee; gene; good; harry; hazelton; line; man; men; newnham; pete; president; reade; right; road; rutter; sir; tent; thurston; time; tom; tom reade; train; want; way; work cache: 12734.txt plain text: 12734.txt item: #2 of 42 id: 20104 author: Cooper, Courtney Ryley title: The Cross-Cut date: None words: 79861 flesch: 89 summary: Robert Fairchild hastily made his toilet, then answered the ringing of the dinner bell, to be introduced to strong-shouldered men who gathered about the long tables; Cornishmen, who talked an h-less language, ruddy-faced Americans, and a sprinkling of English, all of whom conversed about things which were to Fairchild as so much Greek,--of levels and stopes and winzes, of skips and manways and raises, which meant nothing to the man who yet must master them all, if he were to follow his ambition. When the next dance came, they went again on the floor together, Robert Fairchild and the brown-eyed girl whom he suddenly realized he loved, without reasoning the past or the future, without caring whom she might be or what her plans might contain; a man out of prison lives by impulse, and Fairchild was but lately released. keywords: anita; away; big; blue; dance; day; dollars; door; eyes; fairchild; father; feet; find; girl; good; hand; harry; head; house; howard; look; man; moment; money; mother; new; night; ore; place; poppy; richmond; road; robert fairchild; rodaine; room; shaft; sheriff; silver; son; squint; thing; thought; time; town; tunnel; vein; voice; woman; work; years cache: 20104.txt plain text: 20104.txt item: #3 of 42 id: 22231 author: Fuller, Anna title: Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book date: None words: 82070 flesch: 81 summary: His wan, pinched little face looked as if he had cried so much in his short life that there was no longer any relief in it. Dabney Dirke, with his tragic intensity, had often been the occasion of humor in other men, but it is safe to say that his own mind had never been crossed by a single gleam of that illumining, revivifying flame. keywords: air; away; black; boy; bryan; close; day; dayton; dirke; door; end; eyes; face; father; feet; girl; good; gulch; half; hand; head; heart; home; horses; house; jim; kind; lame; left; lem; life; light; little; look; man; marietta; mind; moment; morning; mountain; mrs; new; peckham; place; prairie; ranch; rankin; road; room; simon; sir; springtown; stanwood; think; thought; time; town; voice; way; white; woman; years cache: 22231.txt plain text: 22231.txt item: #4 of 42 id: 25973 author: Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) title: Birds of the Rockies date: None words: 69778 flesch: 74 summary: Abundant resident; mountain bird; makes scarcely any migration; most common from 7,000 to 10,000 feet. 733a. Common summer resident; western bird, but breeds along eastern base of foothills. keywords: air; altitude; american; birds; black; blue; breeding; breeds; brown; bushes; clear; close; colorado; day; distance; eastern; feet; find; foothills; georgetown; good; grass; gray; green; ground; half; head; home; illustration; lake; lark; line; making; migrant; morning; mountain; nest; north; park; peak; pine; place; plains; range; red; rockies; rocky; saw; sides; snow; song; south; sparrows; species; state; summer resident; summit; timber; time; tree; valley; visitor; water; way; western; white; wings; winter; winter resident; yellow; young cache: 25973.txt plain text: 25973.txt item: #5 of 42 id: 26239 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Forester's Daughter: A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range date: None words: 65544 flesch: 89 summary: Too considerate, said Berrie, shortly; he makes other men seem like bears or pigs. I rode up on the stage yesterday with Miss Berrie McFarlane. keywords: belden; berea; berrie; camp; care; cliff; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; feel; fire; forest; girl; good; hand; horse; kind; life; look; man; mcfarlane; meeker; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nash; new; norcross; place; ride; right; rose; supervisor; thing; thought; time; trail; valley; voice; wayland; work cache: 26239.txt plain text: 26239.txt item: #6 of 42 id: 26389 author: Raymond, Evelyn title: Dorothy on a Ranch date: None words: 60336 flesch: 89 summary: You're scaring this timid little thing so it won't drink. He laid his hand upon her head and gently asked: Was he your brother, little girl? No. keywords: alfaretta; alfy; boy; boys; captain; day; dorothy; eyes; face; ford; girl; going; good; gray; hand; head; helena; herbert; home; jim; lady; lem; leon; leslie; life; little; look; man; mean; molly; monty; mrs; place; right; room; san; sing; tell; thing; thought; time; way; white; wun cache: 26389.txt plain text: 26389.txt item: #7 of 42 id: 26434 author: Hamp, Sidford F. (Sidford Frederick) title: The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado date: None words: 67716 flesch: 83 summary: It would be well, wouldn't it, to tell Tom Connor about it? suggested Joe. We had arranged between us that Joe should ride to Sulphide that morning to see Tom Connor and Yetmore, as my father had directed; and accordingly, as soon as he could get off, away he went; the pinto pony, very fresh and lively, going off as though he intended to gallop the whole distance. keywords: big; boys; connor; course; day; father; feet; find; foot; going; good; hand; hole; house; joe; john; know; long; look; man; moment; morning; peter; phil; right; snow; stream; thing; time; tom; water; way; work; yetmore cache: 26434.txt plain text: 26434.txt item: #8 of 42 id: 27077 author: Young, Charles E. (Charles Edward) title: Dangers of the Trail in 1865: A Narrative of Actual Events date: None words: 24044 flesch: 76 summary: At the close of the war Mr. Greeley's advice to young men, through the columns of his paper, was to go West and grow up with the country, and it became a byword throughout the State of New York and the Nation, Young man, go West and grow up with the country. The next day they picked me up and put me in the second or reserve mess wagon. keywords: camp; cattle; city; coach; corral; day; days; denver; fellow; good; illustration; indians; left; life; man; men; miles; morning; mule; night; plains; river; stage; time; trail; trip; wagon; west; young cache: 27077.txt plain text: 27077.txt item: #9 of 42 id: 28562 author: Mills, Enos A. title: Wild Life on the Rockies date: None words: 44340 flesch: 80 summary: Few trees, however, ever held for me such an attraction as did a gigantic and venerable yellow pine which I discovered one autumn day several years ago while exploring the southern Rockies. The bark is fluted and blackish-gray in youth, and it breaks up into irregular plates, which on old trees frequently are five inches or more in thickness. keywords: beaver; birds; cabin; cold; day; feet; fire; forest; good; ground; growth; kinnikinick; life; line; lodge; long; miles; mountain; near; night; peak; pine; place; pole; rockies; scotch; slope; snow; timber; time; trail; tree; water; way; wild; wind; winter; years cache: 28562.txt plain text: 28562.txt item: #10 of 42 id: 29141 author: Montague, H. Gordon title: Two New Pocket Gophers from Wyoming and Colorado date: None words: 2432 flesch: 70 summary: Although large, this skull has the slender proportions of _attenuatus_ to which the specimen is tentatively referred. W Pine Bluffs) to the eastward, _T. t. attenuatus_ differs in smaller size throughout and more slender skull. keywords: colorado; t. t.; wyoming cache: 29141.txt plain text: 29141.txt item: #11 of 42 id: 29335 author: Hambleton, Chalkley J. title: A Gold Hunter's Experience date: None words: 18541 flesch: 78 summary: The rest of them were scattered in other small gulches or mountain valleys in the vicinity. Our course for several days was now along the Little Blue in a northwest direction, toward Fort Kearney on the Platte. keywords: buffalo; camp; day; days; gold; ground; gulch; men; miles; mill; morning; mountain; night; oxen; plains; river; sollitt; time; wagons; water; winter; work cache: 29335.txt plain text: 29335.txt item: #12 of 42 id: 29681 author: Mills, Joe title: A Mountain Boyhood date: None words: 60495 flesch: 81 summary: I furnished my horse, and on most trips, supplies, wrangled the pack-horses, made camp, cooked the meals, and gave invaluable advice and first aid all for the munificent wage of five dollars a day! They could not carry all their household goods on their shoulders, nor pack them on a burro's back, and to freight them over a hundred miles of mountain trails cost more than the purchase of new goods in the new town. keywords: animals; bear; beavers; big; cabin; camp; cañon; cliffs; close; country; day; days; eyes; fall; feet; fire; food; foot; forest; game; head; home; ice; left; life; long; lost; man; men; miles; mountain; new; night; open; park; parson; peak; region; rock; saw; set; sheep; snow; timberline; time; tracks; trail; trees; valley; water; way; wild; wind; winter; years cache: 29681.txt plain text: 29681.txt item: #13 of 42 id: 30224 author: Brodhead, Eva Wilder title: A Prairie Infanta date: None words: 20288 flesch: 87 summary: And I aint going to tell her! Miss Jane, Miss Jane, don't you see you're doing the girl a real injury in letting her regard you, her true benefactor, merely as the agent of her father's generosity? When I persuaded Miss Jane to take you, I couldn't foresee what hard luck I was going to strike, could I? keywords: ana; child; combs; day; doctor; eyes; face; father; girl; good; house; jane; keene; lola; man; mexican; miss; money; right; señora; things; thought; vigil; want cache: 30224.txt plain text: 30224.txt item: #14 of 42 id: 30297 author: Clemens, William Alvin title: Records of the Fossil Mammal Sinclairella, Family Apatemyidae, From the Chadronian and Orellan date: None words: 2595 flesch: 68 summary: Two fossils of Orellan age, found in northeastern Colorado and described here, demonstrate that the geochronological range of the Apatemyidae extends into the Middle Oligocene. Comments With the discovery of Orellan apatemyids the geochronological range of the family in North America is shown to extend from the Torrejonian through the Orellan land-mammal ages. keywords: = =; sinclairella; | | cache: 30297.txt plain text: 30297.txt item: #15 of 42 id: 30318 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Money Magic: A Novel date: None words: 105772 flesch: 87 summary: It was as lovely in color as a flower, a dream-girl, not Bertha Haney. The affection he had borne towards Alice Heath was but the violet ray of friendship compared to the lambent, leaping, red flame of his passion for Bertha Haney. keywords: alice; ben; bertha; business; captain; city; congdon; crego; day; dinner; door; eyes; face; fordyce; gambler; girl; going; good; hand; haney; heart; home; hotel; house; husband; kind; lay; life; little; look; love; lucius; man; mart; mean; mind; moment; money; moss; mother; mrs; need; new; people; place; right; room; rose; stay; talk; thing; thought; time; tis; town; voice; want; way; west; wife; wish; woman; work; world; young cache: 30318.txt plain text: 30318.txt item: #16 of 42 id: 31035 author: Anderson, Sydney title: Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado date: None words: 16996 flesch: 76 summary: (labels on some specimens read West Bank Mancos River, Northeast side Mesa Verde National Park), 69361-69376, 76185-76204; Sect. 27, head of east fork Navajo Canyon, 7900 ft., 69377-69380, 69422-69426; 3 mi. in text July 24, 1961 Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado BY SYDNEY ANDERSON UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1961 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Robert W. Wilson Volume 14, No. 3, pp. keywords: august; canyon; colorado; examined._--total; feet; figures; mancos; mesa; mesa verde; morfield; museum; north; november; park; point; prairie; prater; prater canyon; rock; species; specimens; springs; text; verde cache: 31035.txt plain text: 31035.txt item: #17 of 42 id: 31148 author: Finley, Robert B. title: A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado date: None words: 2699 flesch: 61 summary: _N. m. scopulorum_ differs from _inopinata_ also in paler upper incisors and less prominent basicranial ridges. Two other wood rats (_N. albigula warreni_ and _N. micropus canescens_) occur at many of the same localities as _N. m. scopulorum_. keywords: fallax; length; pelage; scopulorum cache: 31148.txt plain text: 31148.txt item: #18 of 42 id: 31280 author: Anderson, Sydney title: Mammals of the Grand Mesa, Colorado date: None words: 3011 flesch: 69 summary: =_Neotoma cinerea arizonae_= Merriam.--Two immature Bushy-tailed Wood Rats (60000-60001) were obtained at locality 3 on July 3. =_Clethrionomys gapperi galei_= (Merriam).--The 22 specimens (60005-60025, 70133) of Gapper's Red-backed Vole were taken at localities 6, 7, and 10, and are clearly referable to _C. g. galei_, rather than to _Clethrionomys gapperi gauti_ to the south, on the basis of generally dark dorsal pelage, indistinctly bordered broad dorsal stripe, and cranial features. A specimen (70134) taken on June 26, 1956, by Phillip M. Youngman on the Black Mesa, nine miles WNW of Sapinero, 9500 ft., Gunnison County, Colorado, is almost identical in color to the two specimens from Saguache County regarded by Cockrum and Fitch as intergrades between _C. g. galei_ and _C. g. gauti_, but in small size of auditory bullae and narrowness of braincase resembles _C. g. galei_, to which it seems best referred. keywords: county; localities; locality; mesa; specimens cache: 31280.txt plain text: 31280.txt item: #19 of 42 id: 31485 author: Nason, Frank Lewis title: The Blue Goose date: None words: 64276 flesch: 87 summary: Luna saw Firmstone in the laboratory as he entered the railed enclosure. Ze steel get hin ze roll, ze stamp break, ze tram break, ze men kick. keywords: away; bennie; bin; blue; company; day; door; eyes; face; fact; feet; find; firmstone; foreman; girl; going; good; goose; half; hand; hartwell; head; life; lips; long; look; luna; madame; man; mek; men; mill; mind; miss; morrison; office; open; pierre; right; room; safe; tell; things; time; trail; want; way; words; work; zephyr; élise cache: 31485.txt plain text: 31485.txt item: #20 of 42 id: 31930 author: Mayer, Frank title: The Song of the Wolf date: None words: 83528 flesch: 78 summary: Well, let us make every consistent effort to retain him; such men are scarce even in this land of good men. We knew not then that he made his living so: he had come to buy lands, he said, and he had letters, many from great men; they were not written by those whose names they bore as I know now, but we of Mejico know little of such things and trusted him fully. keywords: 'em; abbie; arms; bar; best; bit; blue; brevoort; brother; carter; come; coming; constance; coogan; day; days; door; douglass; eyes; face; feet; fer; game; girl; god; going; good; grace; half; hand; head; heart; horse; hour; ken; kind; know; lay; left; let; life; lips; long; look; love; man; matlock; matter; mcvey; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mouth; mrs; new; night; open; ranch; range; reckon; red; room; shot; table; thet; things; think; thought; thu; time; voice; way; white; wolf; woman; wonder; words; work; world; yuh cache: 31930.txt plain text: 31930.txt item: #21 of 42 id: 33306 author: Lynde, Francis title: The King of Arcadia date: None words: 76098 flesch: 80 summary: This is Mr. Ballard, I believe? I'm telling you, Mr. Ballard, there isn't anything them devils won't be up to, he complained, not without bitterness. keywords: arcadia; ballard; bigelow; blacklock; boy; braithwaite; bromley; camp; canyon; car; castle; chief; colonel; company; course; craigmiles; cut; dam; day; door; elbow; elsa; end; engineer; eyes; face; father; fitzpatrick; good; great; half; hand; head; hoskins; hour; house; kentuckian; left; line; making; man; men; miss; moment; morning; new; night; office; pelham; place; point; river; room; stone; table; thing; thought; time; trail; upper; valley; water; way; wingfield; work; young cache: 33306.txt plain text: 33306.txt item: #22 of 42 id: 33458 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop date: None words: 108826 flesch: 88 summary: Said Curtis: You will find in this camp the Tetong comparatively unchanged. King Frost's dominion was already complete over all the crests, over timber-line, when young Captain Curtis set out to cross the divide which lay between Lake Congar and Fort Sherman--a trip to test the virtue of a Sibley tent and the staying qualities of a mountain horse. keywords: agency; agent; big; brisbane; calvin; camp; captain; captain curtis; coming; curtis; cut; day; door; elk; elsie; eyes; face; father; finger; girl; going; good; hand; head; heart; horns; house; indian; jennie; lawson; left; life; like; little; look; man; maynard; men; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; parker; people; red; right; room; sheriff; soldier; tetongs; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; women; word; work; young cache: 33458.txt plain text: 33458.txt item: #23 of 42 id: 34412 author: Galbreath, Edwin C. (Edwin Carter) title: A New Species of Heteromyid Rodent from the Middle Oligocene of Northeast Colorado with Remarks on the Skull date: None words: 3708 flesch: 62 summary: _H. gregoryi_ is reported to have an incipient tendency to form lophs, and _H. hatcheri_ does the same when worn, but by union with the anterior cingulum. The writer has not examined the asulcate, laterally compressed incisors of _H. hatcheri_, and cannot say how they compare with this specimen. keywords: bone; cingulum; cusps; foramen; palatine; skull cache: 34412.txt plain text: 34412.txt item: #24 of 42 id: 34430 author: Jackson, Helen Hunt title: Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life date: None words: 108606 flesch: 94 summary: I wish he'd take me with him, said Rob. Rob March! Why, yes, dear; of course it is nice here; it is always nice here; what made you think of it just now? Nelly March was one of the honestest little girls that ever lived. keywords: arthur; billy; children; cook; day; deacon; dear; door; face; father; good; half; head; home; house; kleesman; little; look; lucinda; mamma; man; march; mother; mrs; nelly; papa; people; place; plummer; red; right; rob; room; round; saw; silver; soon; tell; thing; thought; time; ulrica; way; white cache: 34430.txt plain text: 34430.txt item: #25 of 42 id: 34836 author: Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) title: A New Pocket Gopher (Genus Thomomys), from Eastern Colorado date: None words: 1098 flesch: 64 summary: T. t. rostralis_, which occur farther west, selected differences of _T. t. retrorsus_ are: lighter color; larger skull; more inflated tympanic bullae; greater relative (to length of skull) breadth across upper incisors, rostrum, and zygomata. T. t. retrorsus_ is indistinguishable in color, length of tail, and length of tooth-row, but averages smaller in all other measurements. keywords: colorado; length; t. t. cache: 34836.txt plain text: 34836.txt item: #26 of 42 id: 35866 author: Titus, Harold title: "I Conquered" date: None words: 69071 flesch: 90 summary: It was man to beast, and somewhere down yonder through the generations a dead racial memory came back and Young VB, girded for the conflict, ached to have his forest foe in reach, to have the fight run high, to have his chance to dare and do in fleshly struggle! Though his meetings with other men were few and scattered, VB was coming to be liked. keywords: away; big; boy; captain; close; country; danny; day; door; eyes; face; feet; gail; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; horse; jed; left; life; lips; look; low; man; men; mind; moment; neck; new; place; ranch; rhues; right; set; stallion; thing; thorpe; thought; throat; time; voice; words cache: 35866.txt plain text: 35866.txt item: #27 of 42 id: 37182 author: Grable, F. C. title: Colorado—The Bright Romance of American History date: None words: 47667 flesch: 70 summary: It is the story of the discovery of a new Continent in the Western Seas; the story of a graceful and cultured people of a mighty world-power in the Fifteenth Century; the story of the dream of a great Western Empire to be founded in the New World, where would be revived all the pomps and chivalries of Castile's ancient court; the story of the fading of that dream in the splendor of the great world-idea of the self-government of man carried by the Pilgrim Fathers to Plymouth Rock in 1620; the story that in the great drama of life man is ever changing from the old into the new, and from the bad into the better in unceasing, unchanging, inevitable evolution; the story of early Colorado, whose ancient Capital, Santa Fe,--in the sense that Colorado is a part of the old Spanish country--was the first white settlement west of the Floridas upon all this Western Continent within the present domain of the United States. He was born in 1814 in Ohio, the State that is so prolific of good men. keywords: army; buffalo; chapter; city; colorado; coronado; country; days; denver; dollars; east; feet; fort; fremont; general; gold; government; great; history; horses; indians; kansas; land; left; life; little; long; man; men; mexico; miles; missouri; mountains; new; north; party; people; pike; place; plains; platte; point; river; sidenote; south; spain; spanish; states; territory; time; tribes; united; war; way; west; white; world; years cache: 37182.txt plain text: 37182.txt item: #28 of 42 id: 37492 author: Brady, Cyrus Townsend title: The Chalice Of Courage: A Romance of Colorado date: None words: 80733 flesch: 81 summary: No men there in those days pried into the business of other men too closely. It's no use, old man, I am going and that's all there is about it. keywords: armstrong; body; camp; cañon; course; day; dead; door; enid; enid maitland; eyes; face; feet; fire; foot; girl; god; going; good; hand; head; heart; human; kirkby; left; life; look; love; maitland; man; men; moment; morning; mountains; newbold; night; range; robert; room; snow; things; thought; time; water; way; wife; woman cache: 37492.txt plain text: 37492.txt item: #29 of 42 id: 38551 author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins title: The Crux: A Novel date: None words: 55069 flesch: 86 summary: Said I got drunk, I warrant! For the past five years, Mrs. Pettigrew had made her home with the Lanes. keywords: bellair; cloud; come; dear; doctor; dykeman; elder; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; grandma; hale; heart; home; house; lady; lane; life; man; men; mind; miss; morton; mrs; new; orella; pettigrew; right; room; skee; susie; think; thought; time; vivian; woman; years cache: 38551.txt plain text: 38551.txt item: #30 of 42 id: 38610 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's New Comedian; Or, The Rise of a Star date: None words: 56313 flesch: 90 summary: So you are Mr. Frank Merriwell? he said. Yesterday afternoon, through the courtesy of Manager Frank Merriwell, an invited audience of at least five hundred persons witnessed the first performance of Mr. Merriwell's revised and rewritten play at the Orpheum Theater, and the verdict of that audience, which represented the highest and most cultured element of Denver society, was that the sprightly, sensational, four-act comedy drama was a success in every way. keywords: actor; bart; burns; company; denver; door; ephraim; eyes; face; fellow; fowler; frank; frank merriwell; gallup; good; hand; havener; head; hodge; look; man; merriwell; merry; money; play; right; room; stage; thing; thought; time; train; way; window; woman; yeou cache: 38610.txt plain text: 38610.txt item: #31 of 42 id: 38959 author: Douglas, Charles L. title: Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado date: None words: 36790 flesch: 71 summary: Because of its propensity to build nests under things, or in the ground, and because of its ability to use less water per gram of body weight, _P. maniculatus_ is better adapted to withstand harsh environments than is _P. truei_. P. maniculatus_ has a higher incidence of parasitism by these flies than has _P. truei_; possibly the adult flies concentrate in the open, grassy areas where _P. maniculatus_ is more abundant, rather than in the woodlands where _P. truei_ lives. keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; adult; animals; area; drainage; end; feet; females; food; grid; ground; home; individuals; juniper; mesa; mice; n =; nest; p. maniculatus; p. truei; park; peromyscus; pinyon; plants; range; species; station; table; trapping; traps; verde; water; woodland; young; | +; | | cache: 38959.txt plain text: 38959.txt item: #32 of 42 id: 42030 author: Mills, Enos A. title: The Rocky Mountain Wonderland date: None words: 59239 flesch: 78 summary: Few trees in this forest-front rise to a greater height than twelve feet. In some cases--as, for instance, with most willows and poplars--these seeds must in an extremely short time find a place and germinate or they perish; the seeds of few trees will stand exposure for two years and still be fertile. keywords: altitude; beaver; birds; close; colorado; day; days; deep; earth; feet; fire; food; forest; glacier; grass; grizzly; head; heights; ice; lake; life; line; lodge; long; miles; mountain; national; near; number; park; peak; people; pine; places; rocky; scenery; seeds; sheep; slide; slope; snow; summit; timber; time; trees; water; way; wild; wind; winter; years cache: 42030.txt plain text: 42030.txt item: #33 of 42 id: 42042 author: Mills, Enos A. title: The Spell of the Rockies date: None words: 57725 flesch: 77 summary: Many forest trees are scarred in the base by ground fires. It was going somewhere with a small cargo of tree seeds. keywords: air; aspen; away; bark; beaver; close; colony; day; deep; earth; feet; fire; forest; forest fire; glacier; harvest; house; ice; insects; left; line; little; long; miles; mountain; near; number; peak; pine; place; pond; river; rock; seeds; slope; snow; soil; storm; stream; surface; time; tree; water; way; wild; wind; winter; work; years cache: 42042.txt plain text: 42042.txt item: #34 of 42 id: 42266 author: Fewkes, Jesse Walter title: Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace date: None words: 37561 flesch: 69 summary: Cliff Palace pottery, when decorated, belongs to the last two divisions, but some of the best made specimens belong to the coiled or indented type. The cross and the various forms of the familiar swastika also occur on Cliff Palace pottery. keywords: cave; cliff palace; deflector; diameter; end; feet; fire; floor; footnote; form; hole; hopi; house; inches; kiva; kiva walls; level; mesa; objects; pilasters; plate; pottery; rock; roof; rooms; ruin; spruce; stone; tree; verde; walls; work cache: 42266.txt plain text: 42266.txt item: #35 of 42 id: 42559 author: Mills, Enos A. title: The Story of Scotch date: None words: 8516 flesch: 84 summary: I carried little Scotch all day long in my overcoat pocket as I rode through the mountains on the way to my cabin. I took him in my hands and assured him that the visitor was welcome, and in a moment little Scotch and the cowboy were side by side gazing at the fire. keywords: cabin; cold; feet; fire; long; night; scotch; snow; time; way; wind cache: 42559.txt plain text: 42559.txt item: #36 of 42 id: 43989 author: Hamp, Sidford F. (Sidford Frederick) title: The Trail of The Badger: A Story of the Colorado Border Thirty Years Ago date: None words: 71777 flesch: 83 summary: Instead of crying and crawling under the blankets, as he might well have been excused for doing, little Dick sprang out of his bed--as did I also. Men plot and plan and calculate and contrive, thinking themselves very clever; but how feeble they are when Dame Nature steps in and takes a hand, and how easily she can upset all their calculations, we were to learn, once for all, that coming day. keywords: arthur; coming; copper; day; dick; end; fact; feet; find; frank; galvez; good; hand; head; hermanos; little; look; man; mexican; moment; mountain; old; padron; pedro; place; professor; right; saw; thing; time; tom; trail; uncle; water; way; wolves cache: 43989.txt plain text: 43989.txt item: #37 of 42 id: 45133 author: Lynde, Francis title: The Helpers date: None words: 105507 flesch: 85 summary: Said he had money to burn now, and asked if there was anything anybody could do to give Lansdale a better show for his white alley. Miss Elliott, this is Mr. Jeffard. keywords: away; bartrow; bit; chair; chance; connie; constance; day; denby; denver; dick; door; elliott; end; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; garvin; good; half; hands; head; heart; help; hold; hope; hour; house; jeffard; kind; lansdale; left; life; little; look; love; man; margaret; mean; men; miss; moment; money; morning; myra; myriad; new; open; people; place; point; question; right; room; saw; set; stand; street; talk; thing; thought; time; train; tunnel; turn; van; vetter; want; way; woman; world cache: 45133.txt plain text: 45133.txt item: #38 of 42 id: 45210 author: Whitney, Ernest title: Legends of the Pike's Peak Region; The Sacred Myths of the Manitou date: None words: 7665 flesch: 66 summary: [Illustration] POPULAR BOOKS BY L. B. FRANCE (BOURGEOIS) PINE VALLEY, (NEW) Illustrated, 12mo, 75cts. Containing two charming stories of mountain life. But at length a barbarian host, apparently from the northeast, came pressing upon them with the sweeping onslaught of a herd of buffaloes, with the fierceness of mountain lions. keywords: colorado; day; earth; face; heaven; manitou; mountain; new; peak; people; religion; spirits; sun cache: 45210.txt plain text: 45210.txt item: #39 of 42 id: 45608 author: France, Lewis B. title: Mr. Dide, His Vacation in Colorado date: None words: 33176 flesch: 78 summary: Except for the rumble of the car wheels, silence reigned for five minutes; the Major's meditations were finally interrupted by the appearance of Mr. Dide, camp-stool in hand. Mr. Dide turned toward the lady, stared, and addressed her: Begpahdon! keywords: air; camp; day; deacon; dide; feet; fish; fly; gentleman; good; half; hand; hills; hour; joshua; lake; line; look; major; man; miles; morning; mountain; place; right; river; road; sun; thought; time; trout; valley; view; water; way; white cache: 45608.txt plain text: 45608.txt item: #40 of 42 id: 59514 author: Reynolds, Mack title: After Some Tomorrow date: None words: 5378 flesch: 91 summary: By time things cleared we were divided as we are now, in clans. The point is that we've got to change the basis of clan society. keywords: alan; clan; husband; sally; vivian; women cache: 59514.txt plain text: 59514.txt item: #41 of 42 id: 6001 author: Roy, Lillian Elizabeth title: Polly of Pebbly Pit date: None words: 63022 flesch: 86 summary: Mrs. Brewster returned to the kitchen and Polly went back to her father's side. Mrs. Brewster sided with Polly's ambition, and planned to visit her old home in Denver to see if she could find any friends who would prove to be desirable for Polly to associate with. keywords: anne; barbara; bob; brewster; burro; creek; day; denver; door; eleanor; father; find; girls; going; gold; good; help; home; horses; house; jeb; john; kitchen; left; like; look; man; maynard; mother; mrs; noddy; nolla; oak; pit; place; polly; ranch; right; room; sam; sary; thought; time; trail; way; work cache: 6001.txt plain text: 6001.txt item: #42 of 42 id: 8670 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado date: None words: 120255 flesch: 89 summary: The Chief Had Shot No Good Fight Here, Said Leaping Horse. Red-skins are bad enough, but they are good men by the side of scoundrels who are false to their colour, and who use Indians to kill whites. keywords: chief; day; dog; feet; find; fire; good; got; half; harry; head; horses; hour; hunting; indians; jerry; know; leaping; left; like; look; man; men; place; right; river; rock; round; sam; skins; snow; straight; thought; time; tom; uncle; valley; water; way; white; work cache: 8670.txt plain text: 8670.txt