The Forester's Daughter: A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range

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Garland Hamlin. The Forester's Daughter: A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range

I. THE HAPPY GIRL

II. A RIDE IN THE RAIN

III. WAYLAND RECEIVES A WARNING

IV. THE SUPERVISOR OF THE FOREST

V. THE GOLDEN PATHWAY

VI. STORM-BOUND

VII. THE WALK IN THE RAIN

VIII. THE OTHER GIRL

IX. FURTHER PERPLEXITIES

X. THE CAMP ON THE PASS

XI. THE DEATH-GRAPPLE

XII. BERRIE’S VIGIL

XIII. THE GOSSIPS AWAKE

XIV. THE SUMMONS

XV. A MATTER OF MILLINERY

XVI. THE PRIVATE CAR

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There are two Colorados within the boundaries of the state of that name, distinct, almost irreconcilable. One is a plain (smooth, dry, monotonous), gently declining to the east, a land of sage-brush, wheat-fields, and alfalfa meadows – a rather commonplace region now, given over to humdrum folk intent on digging a living from the soil; but the other is an army of peaks, a region of storms, a spread of dark and tangled forests. In the one, shallow rivers trickle on their sandy way to the Gulf of Mexico; from the other, the waters rush, uniting to make the mighty stream whose silt-laden floods are slowly filling the Gulf of California.

If you stand on one of the great naked crests which form the dividing wall, the rampart of the plains, you can see the Colorado of tradition to the west, still rolling in wave after wave of stupendous altitudes, each range cutting into the sky with a purple saw-tooth edge. The landscape seems to contain nothing but rocks and towering crags, a treasure-house for those who mine. But this is illusive. Between these purple heights charming valleys wind and meadows lie in which rich grasses grow and cattle feed.

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Her face shone cordially, as she called out: “Well, how do you stack up this morning?”

“Tip-top,” he answered, in an attempt to match her cheery greeting.

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