THE MESA TRAIL 



THE mesa trail begins in the cam- 

 poodie at the corner of Naboth's field, 

 though one may drop into it from the wood 

 road toward the canon, or from any of the 

 cattle paths that go up along the stream- 

 side ; a clean, pale, smooth - trodden way 

 between spiny shrubs, comfortably wide 

 for a horse or an Indian. It begins, I say, 

 at the campoodie, and goes on toward the 

 twilight hills and the borders of Shoshone 

 Land. It strikes diagonally across the foot 

 of the hill -slope from the field until it 

 reaches the larkspur level, and holds south, 

 along the front of Oppapago, having the 

 high ranges to the right and the foothills 

 and the great Bitter Lake below it on the 

 left. The mesa holds very level here, cut 

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