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Title: The awakening of the desert
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Birge, Julius Charles, 1839-1923
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Boston R.G. Badger
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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th a few days before, still remainedon all the lands above the pass. The country for milesaround was bleak and destitute even of sage bush. Froma small cedar log which we had transported a long distanceto meet such an emergency, we chipped a few splinters tobuild our fire. Each member of our party being providedwith a soldiers overcoat, we wrapped ourselves in thosegarments and were soon to be found standing very closetogether around the little blaze. A blue veil of smokerose also from similar fires at each of the other camps,bearing through the clear air the sweet incense of burningcedar, which was quickly followed by the appetizingfragrance of coffee and bacon. We were to make a long drive on the following day, forwe had learned that after leaving the Pacific Spring nowater would be found on our course within a distance oftwenty-eight miles. As a start was to be made at threeoclock in the morning, the boys began early to pull outtheir blankets and find a warm spot for the night. But
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Hm i THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 269 where is the man with soul so dead, so devoid of all appre-ciation of nature when she is in one of her rarest moods,who would not wish to watch a remarkable sunset? Thesun was sinking behind the mountains of the Bear RiverRange which, white with the recent snows and extendingfrom north to south, lay one hundred and fifty milesdistant to the westward. Far, far away to the south andextending from east to west, rose the white-topped UintaRange, which south of us seemed to merge into the highlands of the great divide, crossed by the pass and extendingwestward until it closed in with the western range, formingthe base of an immense triangle of mountains, the easternside of which was the Continental Divide, upon which westood. Extending northward from our camp, this dividingridge rises gradually until it meets the foothills of whatis now known as Atlantic Peak, which is the southernbuttress of the lofty Wind River Range and is twenty-fivemiles away. Continui

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