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Title: Through our unknown Southwest, the wonderland of the United States-- little known and unappreciated-- the home of the cliff dweller and the Hopi, the forest ranger and the Navajo.-- the lure of the painted desert
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936
Subjects: Hopi Indians Navajo Indians
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ere the two travelers mistake a mansion for an inn.But where the arrivals come in relays of from one toa dozen a month, and Issue orders as to hot water andbreakfast and dinner and supper and depart tardilyas a dead-beat from a city lodging house and breakout in complaints and sometimes afterwards breakout in patronizing print, it is time for the Mission andDays Ranch and Mr. Hubbells trading posts tohave kitchen quarters for such as they. In the olddays. Quality sat above the salt; Quantity sat belowit and slept in rushes spread on the floor. I wouldrespectfully offer a suggestion as to salting downmuch of the freshness that weekly pesters the fine oldbaronial hospitality of the Painted Desert. For in-stance, there was the Berlin professor, who arrivedunwanted and unannounced after midnight, andquietly informed his host that he didnt care to risefor the family breakfast but would take his at suchan hour. There was the drummer who ordered thedaughter of the house to hustle the fodder,
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A Xavajo boy who is exceptionally handsome andpicturesque ACROSS THE PAINTED DESERT 107 There was the lady who stayed unasked for threeweeks, then departed to write ridiculous caricaturesof the very roof that had sheltered her. There wasthe Government man who calmly ordered his host tohave breakfast ready at three in the morning. Hishost would not ask his colored help to rise at such anhour and with his own hands prepared the breakfast,when the guest looked lazily through the window andseeing a storm brewing thought hed not mind goingafter all. What? demanded his entertainer. You willnot go after you have roused me at three? You willgo; and you will go quick; and you will go thisinstant. The Painted Desert is bound to become as wellknown to American travelers as Algiers and thenorthern rim of the Sahara to the thousands of Euro-pean tourists, who yearly flock south of the Mediter-ranean. When that time comes, a different systemmust prevail, so I would advise all visitors going intothe

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