Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast (Classic Reprint) written by John R. Spears and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast Early in the year 1891, while a series of sketches made during a trip to the Cryolite mine in Greenland was running through the Sun, an associate on the staff of that paper, Mr. S. T. Mather, came to me and said: "Let me tell you where to go to get another lot of sketches; go out among the borax deserts of the Pacific Coast." Before the matter could be properly considered I was sent by the chief to Central America, and by the time I had returned home the deserts had been entirely forgotten. Afterward, while making some purchases in a grocery store, I noticed that the label on a package of borax was more or less (chiefly less) beautified by a picture of two wagons drawn by a string of mules that stretched out apparently for half a mile over a boundless plain. It is a poor soul that does not feel interested in even one mule with its driver, but to see a half-mile string of desert mules (possibly a new variety) with their driver, that would be a spectacle full of such stirring and hilarious possibilities. But to continue: Above and below the picture appeared the legend "Borax from the Deserts." That reminded me of what my friend had said, and I began to investigate the matter of a journey to the Pacific Coast deserts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.