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Sinners and Saints; A Tour Across the States, and Round Them; With Three Months Among the Mormons
Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them With Three Months Among the Mormons Author:Phil Robinson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Roberts Brothers Subjects: Mormons Utah West (U.S.) Mormons and Mormonism History / Americas Religion / Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Travel / United States / General Travel / United States / West... more » / General Travel / United States / West / Mountain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. IN LEADVILLE. The South Park line -- Oscar Wilde on sunflowers as food -- In a wash-hand basin -- Anti-Vigilance Committees -- Leadville the city of the carbonates -- "Busted" millionaires -- The philosophy of thick boots -- Colorado miners -- National competition in lions -- Abuse of the terms "gentleman" and "lady" -- Up at the mines -- Under the pine-trees. Starting from Denver for Leadville in the evening, it seemed as if we were fated to see nothing of the very interesting country through which the South Park line runs. At first there is nothing to look at but open prairie land sprinkled with the homesteads of agricultural pioneers, but as the moon got up there was gradually revealed a stately succession of mountain ridges, and in about two hours we found ourselves threading the spurs of the Sangre di Christi range and following the Platte River up toward its sources. Crossing and recrossing the canon, with one side silvered, and the other thrown into the blackest shadow by the moon, and the noisy stream tumbling along beside us in its hurry to get down to the lazy levels of the great Nebraska Valley, I saw glimpses of scenery that can never be forgotten. It was fantastic in the extreme; for apart from the jugglery of moonlight, in itself so wonderful always, the ideas of r...« less