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4_124 Independence Yesterday we were on the very crest of the High Sierras, on the Summit of Kearsarge Pass, at 12,000 feet. Today we are in the Owen_s Valley, 7000 feet below, - with its background of desert scenery. Yesterday we were among the snows, by nightfall we had dropped down 7000 feet in as many hours, through deep canons and out over burning mesas, every shrub parched but defiant with thorns and |
4_125 _July 17, 1900. prickles, to the land of Independence, a green place set in the middle of the valley and surrounded by hills and mountains full of every color _ reds, browns, rusty shades innumerable, ash-grays, slates and purples _ save green. The green of Independence is fed by living streams from the High Sierras. They gurgle and prabble through and across the streets everywhere. It is Salt Lake City on a very small scale. It is a land, moreover, where there there is both milk and honey, |
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