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Excerpt from Spawn of the Desert On a rocky plateau of this painted range stood a town - one street (of adobe shacks, paved with the solid rock, of the mountain. Even the houses were tinted with fantastic colors, where the clay had been mixed with the muck of the silver mines. At the upper end of the street the cliffs arose sheer for several hundred feet, like gaudy drapes of calico: At the lower end was a suc cession of broken ledges, which sloped off to the desert, where the winding trails came in from the rest of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.