item: #1 of 6 id: 32164 author: Putnam, George Palmer title: In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making date: None words: 37667 flesch: 71 summary: Our week in Hetch-Hetchy we wished might have been a month, but the calendar moves relentlessly in the Sierra as elsewhere, and only too soon the days were numbered until we must abandon Yosemite Park and strike southward into other mountain regions, with other companionship. And here again, on Council Crest, I venture to turn back to 1860; venture at least again to quote from the literary heritage of Theodore Winthrop, who saw Oregon's mountains then and wrote of them and their influences these lines: Our race has never yet come into contact with great mountains as companions of daily life, nor felt that daily development of the finer and more comprehensive senses which these signal facts of nature compel. keywords: camp; canyon; cascades; central; co.; columbia; copyright; country; course; dalles; day; days; deschutes; east; elk; fields; fire; forest; good; half; hiaqua; home; illustration; lake; land; life; man; miles; mountain; nature; new; night; oregon; pacific; photo; place; portland; railroad; river; saw; snow; sound; summer; tamanous; time; trail; trees; valley; water; way; west; white; work; world; years cache: 32164.txt plain text: 32164.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 33725 author: Chaffee, Allen title: Unexplored! date: None words: 51049 flesch: 83 summary: The rocks around Lassen tell a vivid story of the chain of fire mountains that must have again and again blazed into geysers of molten rock, till the whole smoking range was quenched beneath the ice of that last glacier period, which through the ages has been sculpturing new lake and river beds, and grinding soil for the rebirth of the mighty forests. The boys drowsed off that night to dream of fire mountains and explorations in the nether regions. keywords: ace; age; air; away; boys; camp; canyon; cave; course; day; earth; eyes; feet; find; fire; fish; foot; forest; glacier; going; good; green; ground; half; head; high; horse; left; lester; log; long; man; men; mexicans; mountain; norris; peaks; pedro; radcliffe; ranger; red; right; river; rock; snow; sun; ted; thought; time; trail; tree; turn; water; way; white; wind cache: 33725.txt plain text: 33725.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 34507 author: Hankins, Arthur Preston title: The Heritage of the Hills date: None words: 64523 flesch: 90 summary: It belongs to Mr. Oliver Drew, according to the recorder's office. It required many long minutes for the entire circle to complete the trip around the fire; and this continued on and on till the brain of Oliver Drew swam and the fire in reality took on the aspect of a tormenting, threatening ogre which this rite must crush. keywords: adam; answer; black; cabin; country; creek; dakas; dance; day; dead; digger; drew; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; foss; girl; hand; head; horse; ivison; jessamy; land; long; man; man selden; men; oakers; oliver; oliver drew; pence; place; poche; poison; right; saddle; selden; showut; spring; think; thought; time; water; way; white; years cache: 34507.txt plain text: 34507.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 43917 author: Goldfrap, John Henry title: The Motor Rangers Through the Sierras date: None words: 50508 flesch: 86 summary: Before the others could recover their presence of mind Nat, despite the pain in his ankle, had managed to dash in among the brush where it was impossible to aim at him with any hope of bringing him down. But the scientific aspect of the rock was not what interested Nat. keywords: auto; bismark; boys; cal; camp; car; colonel; dayton; ding; dong; eyes; face; feet; fire; german; going; guess; hand; head; herr; horse; hut; instant; joe; left; man; mind; morello; motor; muller; nat; place; rangers; right; road; rock; stage; ther; thing; thought; time; trail; voice; wall; water; way cache: 43917.txt plain text: 43917.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 45989 author: Chase, Josephine title: Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the High Sierras date: None words: 50279 flesch: 89 summary: Stacy gave her a quick sidelong glance, and Hippy Wingate, observing the look, knew that war had been declared between Stacy Brown and Emma Dean. CHAPTER II AN INTERRUPTED SLEEP Right at this point, said the traveling salesman impressively, a train left the track and plunged into that ravine down there. None of the others had ever seen Stacy Brown, so they had not the least idea what was in store for them from the comedian of the Pony Rider Boys' outfit. keywords: away; boy; brown; camp; car; chunky; elfreda; emma; fire; ford; girls; grace; gray; head; hippy; know; lake; lieutenant; men; mountain; overland; overlanders; party; pony; right; sheriff; stacy; time; tom; trail; way; wingate; woo cache: 45989.txt plain text: 45989.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 5623 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: The Young Explorer; Or, Claiming His Fortune date: None words: 42622 flesch: 91 summary: Leaving Ben and his companion for a time, we go back to record an incident which will prove to have a bearing upon the fortunes of those in whom we are interested. After supper Ben went to Miss Sinclair's room, as directed. keywords: ben; boy; bradley; dewey; dollars; find; friend; good; jack; jake; man; miss; money; o'reilly; right; sam; sinclair; sing; thought; time; tom; uncle; way; yes; young cache: 5623.txt plain text: 5623.txt