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Updated: June 24, 2025


A soft wind blew over the plain, fragrant with the honeydew of the chaparral. The sun set in a great bank of yellow cloud. Then the night came suddenly. A few moments later Roldan called: "Halt!" and held up his hand. "I hear the rush of the water," he said. "We must be near the river." "It sounds as if it was high," said Adan. "It has rained hard this month. Suppose these horses don't swim?"

From the door of the store could be seen the irregular, sloping stretch of prairie to the south, with its reaches of light-green, billowy mesquite flats in the lower places, and its rises crowned with nearly black masses of short chaparral. Through the mesquite flat wound the ranch road that, five miles away, flowed into the old government trail to San Antonio.

Innumerable insects begin to dance, the deer withdraw from the open glades and ridge-tops to their leafy hiding-places in the chaparral, the flowers open and straighten their petals as the dew vanishes, every pulse beats high, every life-cell rejoices, the very rocks seem to tingle with life, and God is felt brooding over everything great and small.

What story she told to get the horse from Cameron her companions did not know, but from where they waited in the pines they saw the flickering light of a lantern cross to the stable. Presently Beulah rode up to them on the hillside above the ranch. By devious paths she led them through chaparral and woodland. Sometimes they followed her over hills and again into gulches.

"We're only three in this bunch, but two of 'em besides me are ring-tailed panthers. Now we'll just draw off, before it's day, an' hide in the chaparral up there." They rode a mile to the north and remained among dense bushes until daylight. At dawn they saw a column of smoke rise from Urrea's camp. "They are cookin' breakfast now," said the Panther.

'Unless one wants Paradise, sighed Margery, 'who wouldn't be contented with dear Camp Chaparral? 'Who would live in a house, any way? exclaimed Philip. 'Sniff this air, and look up at that sky! 'And this is what they call "roughing it," in Santa Barbara, quoth Dr. Winship. 'Why, you youngsters have made that tent fit for the occupancy of a society belle.

So they followed the short cut having the most water and grass, and pounded out a lively tattoo as they raced over the stretches of sand which seemed to slide beneath them. "What do yu know about this here business?" Inquired Pie, as they raced past a chaparral and onto the edge of a grassy plain. "Nothin' more'n yu do, only Buck said he thought Slippery Trendley is at th' bottom of it."

We pushed our way through the dense chaparral and over the earthquake taluses with such speed that we reached the foot of the upper cataract while we had still an hour or so of daylight for the return trip.

Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns. Four hundred miles above its mouth and more than two hundred miles above the Gila, the Colorado has a second tributary "Bill Williams' River" it is called by excessive courtesy. It is but a muddy creek.

I was well regarded by my teachers and by my peers, and I had many friends. I could have continued my studies at a prestigious university, but I longed for a mystical quest. I dreamt that I walked silently across a vast desert plain. I longed to experience that which lay beyond the surface world of reason. I dreamt that I flew over desert chaparral into an infinite orange horizon.

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