Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific CoastRusling, James Fowler
History
Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast
Rusling, James Fowler
Overland journeys to the Pacific; Pacific States -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
PRESCOTT TO LOS ANGELOS.
Prescott, as already intimated, was not Paradise, and we left there
April 13th, for Los Angelos, _via_ Hardyville and Fort Mojave, on
our return "inside," with real rejoicing. Our first stage was to
Fort Mojave, on the Colorado, distant one hundred and sixty miles,
and this we made in five days. Of course, we travelled by ambulance,
and "camped out" every night, as elsewhere mostly in Arizona. The
road was a toll-road, but its general condition was hardly such,
as to justify the collection of tolls ordinarily. As a whole, it
was naturally a very fair road, though there were some bad points,
as at Juniper Mountain and Union Pass, where considerable work had
been required to carry the grades along. At Williamson's Valley,
twenty miles out from Prescott, we found one of the best agricultural
and grazing districts, that we had yet seen in Arizona. There were
but two or three settlers there then, though there were apparently
several thousands of acres fit for farms. The hills adjacent abounded
in scattered cedars and junipers, that would do for fencing and fuel,
and game seemed more abundant near there, than in any place we had
yet been. Quails, found everywhere in Arizona to some extent, here
soon thickened up; the jack-rabbits bounded more numerously through
the bushes; even pigeons and wild-turkeys were heard of; and as we
rattled down through a rocky glen, at the western side of the valley,
a herd of likely deer cantered leisurely across the road--the first
we had seen in Arizona, or indeed elsewhere in the West.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account