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...grown up, big-boned, quiet, and self-reliant, in New Mexico. He had learned Latin from a Belgian priest, life from railroad men. He told St. Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government and the Smithsonian Institution. During his absence, St. Peter had visited the place with Tom and felt strongly how, having no strong bonds with the present...
Wild Horse Mesa. One more rearing range of Western hills has been photographed for melodrama's sake. In the foreground is Jack Holt with Billie Dove, Noah Beery and several thousand wild horses. How Holt saved the horses' lives, abetted the extermination of Mr. Beery and won the lady consume eight reels. Sin and sunshine are contained about in the usual proportions for normal Western entertainment...
...have talked with him only once, but it is impossible to forget this dark, vivid little man. No man who was not serious could be so successful, or could take the pains he does in collecting material for his stories. His new novel, to be called Wild Horse Mesa, is about a great mesa which rises above the canyon country of southern Utah. Mr. Grey has made three attempts to climb this piece of land, in order to provide the climax for his novel?each time he has failed. The climax of his novel will be, therefore, this very insurmountability...
...Point, Conn., bones of an Indian of large stature. 5) On the Wet River, Arkansas, implements of a vanished race with arts of weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National Geographic Society, under Neil M. Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house, traces of a dice game, and other cliff-dwelling relics, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smithsonian Institution. 8) In mounds at Albany, Ore., remains which indicate, in the belief of Dr. Edwin T. Hodge...
...Yosemite National Park, where the party will be conducted to the Upper and Lower Yosemite Fall, the highest cascade in the world. At the Sequoia Park the travelers will pass through the grove of giant trees and from there will proceed to the Grand Canyon and the Mesa Verde National Park, to inspect the cliff dwellings...