item: #1 of 13
          id: 23193
      author: Reid, Mayne
       title: The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
        date: None
       words: 118341
      flesch: 84
     summary: There are miners among them, and young _hacendados_, and _rancheros_, and _vaqueros_, and _ciboleros_, and young merchants who ride well. It was smooth and firm--covered with a short sward of _gramma_ grass.
    keywords: antonio; captain; carlos; catalina; chapter; cibolero; comandante; course; dark; day; direction; dog; don; door; doubt; end; eyes; face; fact; fear; feet; fire; girl; good; ground; half; hand; head; heart; horse; horseman; hour; indians; juan; lay; left; length; life; look; master; moment; mother; new; night; object; party; people; place; plain; presidio; rancho; ravine; rest; return; roblado; rosita; settlement; sister; spot; thought; time; town; trail; valley; vizcarra; way; wild
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: 2503
      author: None
       title: Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest
        date: None
       words: 32903
      flesch: 93
     summary: Hare cried, Man Coyote, do not eat me. Presently Hare called, Man Coyote, how are you going to kill me? I know how, said Coyote.
    keywords: animals; cal; cloud; corn; coyote; earth; father; fire; indians; maidens; man; men; mexico; mountain; new; people; place; river; sky; sun; time; water; white; woman; world
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: 26550
      author: Dodge, Louis
       title: Children of the Desert
        date: None
       words: 52717
      flesch: 86
     summary: And after the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Harboro emerged from the church into the clear night, under the stars, and went afoot in the direction of their new home--an attractive structure which Harboro had had erected on what was called the Quemado Road. Mrs. Harboro was to be shown only the best fabrics, he told her; and no pains were to be spared to make a dress which would be a credit to madame's establishment.
    keywords: antonia; come; day; desert; door; eagle; eyes; face; father; fectnor; good; hand; harboro; house; life; little; look; man; men; mexican; night; pass; people; place; road; room; runyon; sort; sylvia; things; think; thought; time; town; voice; way; woman
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: 28951
      author: Pettis, George H.
       title: Frontier service during the rebellion or, A history of Company K, First Infantry, California Volunteers
        date: None
       words: 9732
      flesch: 61
     summary: This expedition consisted as follows: Colonel Christopher Carson, First New Mexico Cavalry, commanding; Colonel Francisco P. Abreú, First New Mexico Infantry; Major William McCleave, First California Cavalry; Captain Emil Fritz, Company B, First California Cavalry, one officer and forty enlisted men; Lieutenant Sullivan Heath, Company K, First California Cavalry, one officer and forty men; Captain Meriam, Company M, First California Cavalry, one officer and thirty-four men; Lieutenant George H. Pettis, Company K, First California Infantry, one officer and twenty-six men; Captain Charles Deus, Company M, First New Mexico Cavalry, two officers and seventy men; Captain Joseph Berney, Company D, First New Mexico Cavalry, two officers and thirty-six men; Company A, First California Veteran Infantry, seventy-five men; Assistant Surgeon George S. Courtright, United States Volunteers, and an officer whose name escapes me, as Assistant Quartermaster and Commissary,--numbering in all, fourteen officers and three hundred and twenty-one enlisted men. BY GEORGE H. PETTIS, [Brevet Captain United States Volunteers; Late First Lieutenant Company K, First California Infantry, and First Lieutenant and Adjutant First New Mexico Infantry.] PROVIDENCE: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 1885.
    keywords: california; camp; captain; cavalry; colonel; command; company; day; fort; indians; infantry; lieutenant; march; men; miles; water
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: 314
      author: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank)
       title: Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations
        date: None
       words: 54279
      flesch: 74
     summary: HOOPER, J. J. _Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs_, 1845. BUSH, I. J. _Gringo Doctor_, Caldwell, Idaho, 1939.
    keywords: adventures; american; austin; bibliography; biography; book; boston; buffalo; california; cattle; character; charles; country; cowboy; dallas; days; dobie; early; facts; fiction; folk; folklore; frank; frontier; george; good; henry; historical; history; horse; human; illustrated; indian; james; john; knowledge; land; life; literature; london; long; man; men; mexican; mexico; mountain; narrative; nature; new; new mexico; new york; norman; north; oklahoma; people; plains; press; ranch; range; reminiscences; russell; santa; society; songs; southern; southwest; spanish; stories; subject; tales; texas; time; trail; university; way; western; wild; william; work; writing; years
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: 31646
      author: Laut, Agnes C.
       title: Through Our Unknown Southwest The Wonderland of the United States—Little Known and Unappreciated—The Home of the Cliff Dweller and the Hopi, the Forest Ranger and the Navajo,—The Lure of the Painted Desert
        date: None
       words: 81823
      flesch: 76
     summary: The wise men or governors of the pueblos are always old men elected out of respect for their superior wisdom, men used to having their slightest word implicitly obeyed. CHAPTER XIV CASA GRANDE AND THE GILA If someone should tell you of a second Grand Cañon gashed through wine-colored rocks in the purple light peculiar to the uplands of very high mountains--a second Grand Cañon, where lived a race of little men not three feet tall, where wild turkeys were domesticated as household birds and every man's door was in the roof and his doorstep a ladder that he carried up after him--you would think it pure imagination, wouldn't you?
    keywords: acoma; adobe; age; air; america; camp; cave; cañon; city; cliff; come; coming; cross; day; days; dead; desert; dust; dwellings; europe; fact; feet; fire; forests; governor; grande; half; hand; hopi; horses; house; indian; know; land; left; life; light; line; look; man; men; mesa; mexico; miles; mission; modern; morning; mountains; national; navajo; new; new mexico; north; past; peaks; pecos; people; place; pueblo; ranch; red; rock; room; round; ruins; sand; santa; school; set; silver; snow; southwest; spanish; stone; taos; thousands; time; town; trail; valley; walls; water; way; west; white; women; work; world; xavier; years; yellow
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: 38039
      author: Siringo, Charles A.
       title: History of "Billy the Kid"
        date: None
       words: 19461
      flesch: 84
     summary: The Kid recognized them as Morton and Baker, his former friends. THE MURDER OF SHERIFF BRADY AND HIS DEPUTY, HINDMAN, BY THE KID AND HIS BAND.
    keywords: billy; camp; charlie; county; fort; gang; garrett; house; kid; lincoln; man; men; mexico; miles; new; pistol; posse; ranch; river; sheriff; shot; sumner; time; tom
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: 41700
      author: Kjelgaard, Jim
       title: Hi Jolly!
        date: None
       words: 39299
      flesch: 81
     summary: Ali Finds the Dalul The first gray light of very early morning was just starting to thin the black night when Ali opened his eyes. Hearing Ali, the eight turned as one and greeted him with hostile stares.
    keywords: ali; allah; baggage; beale; ben akbar; camels; camp; caravan; dagger; dalul; day; desert; druse; expedition; eyes; horses; jackal; lieutenant; look; man; mecca; men; mimico; night; officer; pasha; run; soldiers; thought; time; water; way
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: 42361
      author: Burdick, Arthur J. (Arthur Jerome)
       title: The Mystic Mid-Region: The Deserts of the Southwest
        date: None
       words: 29648
      flesch: 72
     summary: Neither are subscriptions payable in cordwood, for that is a commodity unknown to desert towns. More recently, as the railroads have spanned the continent at different points, we have knowledge of several deserts.
    keywords: borax; burro; c. c.; c. pierce; california; co.; colorado desert; death; desert; desert region; feet; fields; gold; illustration; indians; land; level; line; man; men; miles; mojave; new; photograph; pierce; plant; prospector; region; river; salt; sea; thirst; time; town; valley; water; white
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: 46110
      author: Pattie, James O. (James Ohio)
       title: Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824-1830; Willard's Inland Trade with New Mexico, 1825, and Downfall of the Fredonian Republic; and Malte-Brun's Account of Mexico
        date: None
       words: 130203
      flesch: 73
     summary: We pursued with the utmost of our speed to no purpose, for they soon reached the open prairie, where we concluded they were joined by other Indians on horseback, who pushed our horses still faster; and soon the clattering of their heels and the yells of their accursed pursuers began to fade, and become indistinct in our ears. {v} To me, there is a kind of moral sublimity in the contemplation of the adventures and daring of such men.
    keywords: american; arms; arrows; bear; california; camp; captain; chief; city; coast; companions; company; country; course; day; days; death; distance; evening; expedition; father; feet; fire; fort; furs; general; good; great; ground; guard; head; horses; indians; inhabitants; journey; kind; leave; left; life; long; man; men; mexican; mexico; miles; mission; morning; mountains; new; night; note; number; party; pattie; people; place; plain; point; power; present; prison; red; regard; return; river; san; santa; saw; set; spaniards; spanish; stream; thing; thought; time; town; village; water; way; white; wild; women; years
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: 48680
      author: Goldfrap, John Henry
       title: The Border Boys on the Trail
        date: None
       words: 52284
      flesch: 86
     summary: When, however, three or more helpings of rabbit stew had become a part of Coyote Pete, and an equal number was being assimilated into the person of Jack Merrill, the cow-puncher took advantage of the temporary absence of Jim Hicks--who had gone to see after his ponies--to ask Jack if he thought it wise to tell the prospector some of their story. No, I guess Coyote Pete, or Jack Merrill, or Walt Phelps could get us out of this a whole lot quicker than all the classical authors that ever classicked, said Ralph disgustedly.
    keywords: black; border; boys; bud; cow; coyote; dam; door; eyes; face; feet; going; good; guess; hand; head; horse; instant; jack; jack merrill; jim; look; man; merrill; mexican; mind; pete; place; ponies; professor; puncher; ralph; ramon; right; thought; time; trail; walt; water; way
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: 5404
      author: Chase, Josephine
       title: Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert
        date: None
       words: 42201
      flesch: 90
     summary: Grace Harlowe flings herself into the saddle, braced for the shock. CHAPTER II--AN OUTLAW MEETS HIS MATCH Grace fights a stubborn battle with the vicious bronco. Yeow! howled the cowboys, but Grace did not hear them, for the pony had dropped to all fours, and no sooner had his feet touched the ground than he leaped clear of it, coming down stiff-legged with a jolt that jarred Grace Harlowe throughout her body in spite of her effort to soften the shock by throwing most of her weight on the stirrups.
    keywords: briggs; camp; desert; elfreda; emma; find; girls; grace; guide; head; hi lang; hippy; lang; lieutenant; man; miss; night; overland; ping; ponies; pony; time; water; way; wingate
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: 55718
      author: Whiting, Lilian
       title: The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific
        date: None
       words: 85609
      flesch: 60
     summary: It is fairly a drive in elfland, and is as distinctive a feature of Colorado Springs life as is the famous drive from Naples to Amalfi and Sorrento a feature of the enchantment of Southern Italy. One easily slips into all the charm and fascination of Colorado days through these resplendent winters, when there are two hours more of light and sunshine in Colorado, on account of its altitude, than in any state to the eastward.
    keywords: acres; air; arizona; beauty; california; cañon; centre; church; city; colorado; colorado springs; conditions; country; creek; day; deep; denver; desert; dollars; earth; east; electric; fact; feet; forests; future; general; gods; gold; good; grand; greeley; high; illustration; interest; irrigation; journey; land; life; like; line; long; man; meeker; men; mexico; miles; mountain; nature; near; new; new mexico; night; park; peak; people; pike; place; point; power; present; pueblo; region; resources; river; road; rock; santa; sea; sky; spanish; state; strange; summer; time; town; united; valley; view; walls; water; way; west; women; work; world; years
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