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Susan E. Wallace takes us into the heart of nineteenth-century New Mexico and its surrounding Indian Pueblos. Eagerly, she shares her adventures and observations about the land, history, customs and inhabitants. We start with her journey West first by rail and then by buckboard. We go with her to her first contact with Native Americans and attend an Indian ceremony. We share her excitement as she forces open a heavy wooden door into a locked a...

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Excerpt from The Land of the PueblosI AM feet nearer the sky than you are. Come to the sweet and lonely valley in the West where, free from care and toil, the weary soul may rest where there are neither railroads, manu factures, nor common schools, and, so little is expected of us in the way Of public spirit, we almost venture to do as we please, and forget we should vote, and see to it that the Republic does not go to the demnition bow-wows.A...

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Excerpt from The Repose in Egypt: A MedleyThe Story of One Woman is easily identified. A life, somewhat idealized, too well-known to elude recognition, and familiar in the Orient as stories of Lady Hester Stanhope and Lady Mary Montague were to a past generation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical ...

Excerpt from Ginevra, or the Old Oak Chest: A Christmas StoryAny years ago there lived in an ancient castle in England a proud Baron, who had one child, Ginevra, a little girl named for her mother, who died the night her baby was born.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses s...

Excerpt from Along the Bosphorus: And Other SketchesIt is like adding a story to the Tower of Babel to attempt anything new in these old regions where there were settlements before the first of Moguls was enthroned at Delhi, when Rome was the name given to a few straw-built sheds on the Palatine. Happily there are always young readers to whom the world is fresh as when the fairest of women first opened her eyes and the evening and the morning ...