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WITH THE FREE IN ARIZONA 



How the People of the Plains Employ the Simple Life in the 



Pursuit of Health and Happiness 



BY JULIAN A. DIMOGK 



ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR 



UR baggage testified 

 most eloquently that we 

 were two unwise men out 

 of the East, men who had 

 lived in a manner dis- 

 tinctly apart from the 

 life of the plains. But it 

 might have been even 

 worse, for the trunks were already packed, 

 locked and strapped, and we were well satis- 

 fied over the thoroughness of our prepara- 

 tions and the completeness of our equip- 

 ment when good fortune brought to us a 

 man acquainted with the plains country. 

 He viewed our preparations and looked 

 amused. 



" Clothes?" he asked, poking at one of 

 the trunks with his foot. 



"Yep," said we, trying to appear uncon- 

 cerned. 



"Take a pair of blankets and a rubber 



poncho each. Guns?" viewing our arma- 

 ment. "What for? Go in the clothes you 

 are wearing, wash them when they need it 

 and take a sun bath while they are drying. 

 Hire a horse each, a guide, and there you 

 are!" 



So we took off our coats, produced keys, 

 unbuckled straps, and with many a sigh 

 discarded, painfully and with much de- 

 liberation, a good half of our equipment. 

 And even then we had twice over what we 

 needed. Still we were "heeled" for man or 

 beast on the warpath, fortified against in- 

 clemency of weather and the chance need 

 of a physician or a surgeon. We had guide 

 books and folding maps aplenty, and were 

 brimful of the advice of various friends no 

 more experienced than ourselves. 



As we stepped from the train at the little 

 Arizona station we were greeted by a wild 

 "Whoo-oop!" as a long-haired Indian, 



Copyright, igo6, by Wm. E. Annis. 



