Arizona's yesterday

During part of 1868 I carried mail from where Calabasas is now--it was then Fort Mason--to Fort Crittenden, a proceeding emphatically not as simple as it may sound. My way lay o...

The larger part of the Arizona "desert" is not barren sand, but fertile silt and adobe, needing only water to make of it the best possible soil for farming purposes. Favored by...

Guaymas reached, my troubles were not over, for there was still the long Sonora desert to be crossed before the haven of Hermosillo could be reached. At last I made arrangements...

What San Bernardino is now to the west-bound traveler, Wilmington was then--the end of the desert. From Wilmington eastward stretched one tremendous ocean of sand, interspersed...

While I was in Yuma the railroad reached Dos Palmas, Southern California, and one day I went there with a wagon and bought a load of apples, which, with one man to accompany me,...

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It was no difficult thing to steal cattle successfully, providing the rustler exercised ordinary caution. The method most in favor among the rustlers was as follows: For some we...