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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... In The Devil's Canon * '7/ ;/?"v*" THIS is where I saw a bear day before yesterday." "If there was one here then we ought to find one here now." "That doesn't most always follow. Bears are strange creatures. Sometimes I have known 'em to hang 'round a canon like this for weeks at a time and then again they wouldn't show up for days. I reckon they have a feeding ground hereabouts and when there are berries and other things to be had, they work their vein for all its worth and then when they've got all they can, go out and look for something else. Just now, however, we had better keep quiet and be on the lookout." There were three members of the little party which late in the summer of 1886 was entering a great gorge in Arizona which was known as the Devil's Canon. The oldest member of the little band was Z. Taylor Smith, a man about sixty years of age, hale and strong. The name of Old Rough and Ready had appealed strongly to the parents of the prospector and at the time of the birth of their boy they were united in their plan to call their offspring by the name of the President. This name, however, among those who knew him best, was commonly shortened to Zack. His face had been bronzed by his many years in the southwest. He had been one of the Forty-niners, who had gone in that famous year to California, when gold had been discovered near Sacramento. Apparently his fortune had not yet been made, however, although every year his courage was still strong, and now, after the passage of a quarter of a century, he was still confident that he would find gold in the near future. The second member of the trio was a young engineer named John McBrier. Two years before the time when the events in this story occurred he had graduated from one of the...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... In The Devil's Canon * '7/ ;/?"v*" THIS is where I saw a bear day before yesterday." "If there was one here then we ought to find one here now." "That doesn't most always follow. Bears are strange creatures. Sometimes I have known 'em to hang 'round a canon like this for weeks at a time and then again they wouldn't show up for days. I reckon they have a feeding ground hereabouts and when there are berries and other things to be had, they work their vein for all its worth and then when they've got all they can, go out and look for something else. Just now, however, we had better keep quiet and be on the lookout." There were three members of the little party which late in the summer of 1886 was entering a great gorge in Arizona which was known as the Devil's Canon. The oldest member of the little band was Z. Taylor Smith, a man about sixty years of age, hale and strong. The name of Old Rough and Ready had appealed strongly to the parents of the prospector and at the time of the birth of their boy they were united in their plan to call their offspring by the name of the President. This name, however, among those who knew him best, was commonly shortened to Zack. His face had been bronzed by his many years in the southwest. He had been one of the Forty-niners, who had gone in that famous year to California, when gold had been discovered near Sacramento. Apparently his fortune had not yet been made, however, although every year his courage was still strong, and now, after the passage of a quarter of a century, he was still confident that he would find gold in the near future. The second member of the trio was a young engineer named John McBrier. Two years before the time when the events in this story occurred he had graduated from one of the...
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