The Indians of the Painted Desert Region (annotated): George Wharton James Mini Biography Edition (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This annotated version of The Indians of the Painted Desert Region contains a George Wharton James Mini Biography. Angelnook Publishing reprints his works that are pertinent. excerpt: Wild, weird, and mystic pictures are formed in the mind by the very name—the Painted Desert. The sound itself suggests a fabled rather than a real land. Surely it must be akin to Atlantis or the Island of Circe or the place where the Cyclops lived. Is it not a land of enchantment and dreams, not a place for living men and women, Indians though they be? It is a land of enchantment, but also of stern reality, as those who have marched, unprepared, across its waterless wastes can testify. No fabled land ever surpassed it in its wondrousness, yet a railway runs directly over it, and it is not on some far-away continent, but is close at hand; a portion, indeed, of our own United States.