Land of Sunshine, Volume 17F. A. Pattee & Company, 1902 Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America. |
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... heart and possibly also as a chip upon his shoulder . On the other hand , if he has done as much for other commonwealths , it has taken him far more years . New York , " civilized " more than five times as long as California , has ...
... heart and possibly also as a chip upon his shoulder . On the other hand , if he has done as much for other commonwealths , it has taken him far more years . New York , " civilized " more than five times as long as California , has ...
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... heart a grave ; Mine was a life whose swift desire Bent ever less to dust than fire ; Then through the swift , white path of flame Send back my soul to whence it came ; From some great peak , storm - challenging , My death - fire to the ...
... heart a grave ; Mine was a life whose swift desire Bent ever less to dust than fire ; Then through the swift , white path of flame Send back my soul to whence it came ; From some great peak , storm - challenging , My death - fire to the ...
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... had heard , there were great chances for poor men to go adventuring for gold upon their own account . My mother , who lacked heart for such enterprises , he left quite comfortable at Porktheran , with myself for company . 50.
... had heard , there were great chances for poor men to go adventuring for gold upon their own account . My mother , who lacked heart for such enterprises , he left quite comfortable at Porktheran , with myself for company . 50.
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... heart upon . But when I was about twelve years old , and had well nigh forgotten what a father might be like , there came great news from the Coso Hills of California . He had been working there in the Merry Thought , and prospecting on ...
... heart upon . But when I was about twelve years old , and had well nigh forgotten what a father might be like , there came great news from the Coso Hills of California . He had been working there in the Merry Thought , and prospecting on ...
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... heart misgave her , being in so strange a place , and she went to the landlady for comfort , finding none with me , who had gone daft with the noise and stir of the great city . At any rate they would be talking always on the back ...
... heart misgave her , being in so strange a place , and she went to the landlady for comfort , finding none with me , who had gone daft with the noise and stir of the great city . At any rate they would be talking always on the back ...
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Page 300 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city.
Page 497 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 495 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado.
Page 296 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 580 - Thro' every hollow cave and alley lone Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotosdust is blown. We have had enough of action, and of motion we...
Page 256 - All able-bodied male inhabitants of the State, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, that are citizens of the United States, or have declared their intention to become citizens thereof, shall constitute the militia of the State...
Page 495 - Fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the said States and territories, and for the payment of all other expenditures provided for in this Act.
Page 495 - ... per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the "reclamation fund...
Page 502 - That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.