Author: James Blomfield

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-21

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781333314170

Excerpt from Rod, Gun, and Palette in the High Rockies: Being a Record of an Artist's Impressions in the Land of the Red Gods Some time before reaching Sherman, Wyo., 8,0l0 feet above sea level, the land takes an aspect of bleak, bare desolation, broken only by an occasional sheep herder's hut, or a straggling fence. A feeding station for stock is quite an event. Arthur comments on the isolation of things, and the hardihood of early homesteaders. This serves as the introduction to a surveyor's story told by the artist. A survey party in this part of the West years ago came Upon a deserted homestead. The doors and windows of the house were boarded up. On the boards on one side was chalked Four miles from wood. On the second side was chalked Six miles from water. On the third side, A hundred miles from a railroad, and on the last side, God bless our home. The clouds hang low, and it gets a bit monotonous. A resort is had to cards, this time Ellicott and Jimmy against Pratt and Wroe at pedro, in which the first two are victorious by a narrow margin. Bill and Art then go to a game of their own, in which, hands of twelve each being dealt, the players draw and discard in runs, threes and fours, a deuce having any value the man drawing it likes to give it in combination with the others. The man playing out all his cards first is credited with the number of pips counted on the cards still remaining in the hand of his opponent. As he plays, Bill keeps up a running comment that tickles the other two mightily. I don't hear all of it, but get a stray sentence now and then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.