Westward hoboes : $b ups and downs of frontier motoringDixon, Winifred Hawkridge
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Westward hoboes : $b ups and downs of frontier motoring
Dixon, Winifred Hawkridge
Automobile travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
A Hotavilla Sybil 256
Navajo Mountain from the mouth of Segi Canyon 278
Rainbow Bridge Trail near Navajo Mountain 282
Crossing Bald Rock, on Rainbow Bridge Trail 284
Rainbow Bridge, Utah 286
Monument country, Rainbow Trail 294
Rainbow Bridge Trail 294
Entrance to the Canyon de Chelley 298
Quicksand; Canyon de Chelley 300
Near the entrance of Canyon de Chelley, Arizona 302
Cliff-dwellings, Canyon de Chelley, Arizona 304
Casa Blanca, Canyon de Chelley, Arizona 306
Navajo sheep-dipping at Shiprock 312
Cliff-dwellings, Mesa Verde Park, Colorado 316
Shoshones at sun dance, Fort Hall, Idaho 322
A Shoshone tepee, Fort Hall, Idaho 324
Camping near Yellowstone Park 328
Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park 330
Glacier Park, Montana 332
Blackfeet Indians at Glacier Park, Montana 336
Two Medicine Lake, Glacier Park, Montana 344
Wrangling horses, Glacier Park, Montana 344
A Mormon irrigated village 354
The “Million Dollar” Mormon Temple at Cardston, Alberta,
Canada 354
WESTWARD HOBOES
CHAPTER I
“WESTWARD HO!”
Toby’s real name is Katharine. Her grandmother was a poet, her father
is a scientist, and she is an artist. She is called Toby for Uncle
Jonas’ dog, who had the habit, on being kicked out of the door, of
running down the steps with a cheerful bark and a wagging tail, as
if he had left entirely of his own accord. There is no fact, however
circumstantially incriminating, which this young doctrinaire cannot
turn into the most potent justification for what she has done or wishes
to do, and when she gets to the tail wagging stage, regardless of how
recently the bang of the front door has echoed in our ears, she wags
with the charm of the artist, the logical precision of the scientist,
and the ardor of the poet. Even when she ran the car into the creek at
Nambe----
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