"I knew the railroad was coming—I saw men already swarming into the land. I knew the derby hat, the smoking chimneys, …"

"Art is a she-devil of a mistress, and if at times in earlier days she would not even stoop to my way of thinking, I h…"

"After two centuries of civil administration, with its agents, its treachery, its inefficiency, and at time its horrib…"

"The Northwest is dotted over with soldiers sleeping out in the snows of this winter because of this mismanagement of …"

"The Saxon race is not in a habit of dividing the spoils with a conquered one."

"The northern Cheyennes, after they surrendered to General Miles, irrigated and raised crops at the mouth of the Tongu…"

"In Arizona nature allures with her gorgeous color and then repells with the cruelty of her formation—waterless, barre…"

"Cuba is not a new-born country, peopled by wood-cutting, bear-righting, agricultural folks, who must be fresh and vir…"

"Physically, one is immediately impressed with the underdeveloped state of Havana and Cuba generally, and of the illim…"

"It is not their first rodeo, one can see, but I should wish they were with mamma and the buckboard, instead of out he…"