The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific

Deep in the heart of the Rocky Mountains lies Glenwood Springs, a fashionable watering place, where a great hotel, bearing the name of the Centennial State, with every pretty de...

In the picturesque region of Pike's Peak there is grouped such an array of scenic wonders as are unrivalled, within the limits of any corresponding area, in the entire world. To...

"_... The stars are glowing wheels, Giddy with motion Nature reels; Sun, moon, man, undulate and stream, The mountains flow, the solids seem, Change acts, reacts; back, forward...

"_The earth grew bold with longing And called the high gods down; Yea, though ye dwell in heaven and hell, I challenge their renown. Abodes as fair I build ye As heaven's rich c...

"_I will make me a city of gliding and wide-wayed silence, With a highway of glass and of gold; With life of a colored peace, and a lucid leisure, Of smooth electrical ease, Of...

"_A spell is laid on sod and stone, Night and day are tampered with. Every quality and pith Surcharged and sultry with a power That works its will on age and hour._"

"_In the deep heart of man a poet dwells Who all the day of life his summer story tells; Scatters on every eye dust of his spells, Scent, form, and color: to the flowers and she...

New Mexico is the scene of surprises. Traditionally supposed to be a country that is as remote as possible from the accepted canons of polite society; that is also an arid waste...

In the place once occupied by those whose lives were consecrated to the divine ideal, some influence, as potent as it is unseen, binds the soul to maintain the honor that they l...

Los Angeles, "the City of the Angels," is invested with the same poetic suggestion in its name as that which surrounds Santa Fé,--"the City of the Holy Faith." A terraced street...

The good American of the Twentieth century by no means defers going to Paris until he dies, but anticipates the joys of Paradise by making a familiarity with the French capital...