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MISREPRESENTATIONS. 
In those handsome structures she maintained 
there was an unanswerable argument against such 
utter lack of civilization as they supposed to 
exist so far from the Atlantic coast. 
The source of the deepest annoyance to Mrs. 
Maxwell’s family, which her presence at the 
Centennial occasioned, was an out-growth of this 
ignorance. To their intense disgust the news- 
papers persisted for some time in representing 
her as simply a female “ Border Bill,” and 
seemed wilfully oblivious to the possibility that, 
coming from the Rocky Mountains, she could be 
other than what they termed her, “ The Colorado 
Huntress ” — a female of remarkable skill with a 
gun, and courage enough to shoot a bear ! 
But she had neither time nor inclination to 
correct assertions which she felt the reality of her 
life contradicted. Her present was too full of 
more urgent and-agreeable claims. As every one 
of the many, many persons who visited the Cen- 
tennial will readily believe, each moment of her 
summer was occupied. She was left no leisure 
even for her meals and the demands of her ward- 
robe. Some one was always waiting with an 
imperative demand to see her ; and when at last 
the great Corliss engine ceased its work, and the 
curious and beautiful things of the Exposition 
were removed, she found she had given memory 
few more of its wonders to retain than the recol- 
