Hand-clasp of the East and West: A Story of Pioneer Life on the Western Slope of ColoradoPress of the Williamson-Haffner Engraving & Printing Company, 1914 - 459 páginas |
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Hand-clasp of the East and West: A Story of Pioneer Life on the Western ... Henry Ripley,Martha Pedley Ripley Visualização integral - 1914 |
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Página 6 - They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake and rise to fight and win.
Página 6 - That's where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter, Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, That's where the West begins.
Página 270 - I shall think you the most generous of mortal beings — and if there is anything in the world I can do for you — anything short of " she hesitated. "Short of renouncing your guilty connection with my husband, I suppose you mean,
Página 332 - ... and rattling. The stable grew suddenly as dark as night, and stepping to the door he opened it and found the outside totally dark and the air filled with flying snow. Thinking it was a terrific gust of wind, he slammed the stable door shut and waiting a few seconds, he peered through a crack and as it grew light again he opened the door and saw the tram cable swinging about and buckets rolling down the hill. As the snow in the air settled he stepped out a few feet and looking up towards the boarding...
Página 332 - ... being brought down by one of the workmen who escaped. All the doctors available and many citizens at once started up the trail to lend such assistance as was in their power in digging out the buried and injured men...
Página 285 - To the south is the Uncompahgre range, whose peaks are covered with snow the year round. The Elk range lies to the east, some forty miles distant. These two ranges are the highest and most rugged in Colorado.1" Fine ranches were already being taken up, the air of intense activity manifested everywhere.
Página 332 - Umsted is employed, with a few mules, packing a short distance from a crusher to the train station. He had just come from breakfast and was in the stable saddling his animals, when he heard a terrific crashing and rattling. The stable grew suddenly as dark as night, and, stepping to the door, he opened it and found the outside totally dark and the air filled with flying snow. Thinking...
Página 333 - At 1:30, word came to town from the Liberty Bell office asking that bulletins be posted asking for all the help possible, as a second slide had come down, covering the rescue party.
Página 69 - Magntficence. the heights above, one hardly knows whether to call it a city of gardens and groves, or an immense grove and garden sprinkled with palaces and delightful homes. Health and prosperity seem to have made themselves the presiding Deities of the place. We gratefully decide that we have arrived at a point where it were well to let the train, like the busy world it typifies, pass on and away, while we rest in this paradise — a home indeed fit for the angels— and while we bask in its sunshine,...
Página 448 - June 7, 1904, the Secretary of the Interior set aside $2,500,000 from the reclamation fund for the construction of the Uncompahgre Valley project and authorized the taking of such action as might be necessary to carry out the project in all its details. CONSTRUCTION TUNNEL ROAD AND TELEPHONE LINE Work on the final location of the tunnel and of a wagon road to River Portal was begun promptly after the authorization of the project.