Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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CAMP LIFE IN NEW 21 EX ICO 107 belongings even to the kitten—wliieli was unfortunately captured by an owl. Another workman brought his newly made bride for a honeymoon trip. He, it was said, had been the victim of the folly of the higher education. Hav- ing been at school and therefore quali- fied to act as postmaster, he had tried to defraud the government, for which horses; and families near our camps were sure to make similar requests. As I glance back over this last won- derful summer, with its kaleidoscopic changes, my mind is crowded with varied images. With scarcely any pause in our daily travel from the last of ^lay until the last of October, except for the month at Aztec, new scenes kept
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Measuring the rooms and taking an inventory of the contents occupy a large part of the time when i-ation is in full swing. In the background of this picture, taken at San Cristobal, may be seen the remains of a church built by the Spaniards some three hundred years ago he had spent one year in the "pen." Apparently, however, this experience had not detracted in the least from his own or his bride's admiration for him- self. Before leaving camp he begged that their pictures might be taken as souvenirs of their happ)^ time there. This matter of having pictures taken, by the way, was something that greatly fascinated the natives, even the Indian boys sometimes requesting it. A group of cowboys one day held us up for a half hour while they posed on their unfolding before us. Towering cliffs, weathered into all sorts of fantastic and beautiful shapes, melted into vast plains of sagebrush-covered sand, again to be replaced by pinon and cedar-tim- bered hills carpeted with many kinds of wild flowers. Little Mexican towns are tucked away in the most unexpected places, the low adobe houses so blending with the general landscape that if it were not for the relief afforded by strings of scarlet peppers and by a few fruit and

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