TO MY WIFE

INDEX

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[Brief History of the Famous Santa Fe Trail]7
[The Santa Fe Trail]12
[The Blind Beggar of Albuquerque]16
[Sunrise From “The Alvarado”]18
[The Lilacs of Shawmont]20
[A Jolly Fellow is the Western Tumbleweed]21
[The Grand Canyon of Arizona]21
[The Melodies of Memories]22
[The Harvey House Chimes]23
[Rest]24
[She Gave Me Two]24
[The Face in the Moon]25
[In Spirit Land]25
[Life’s Treasures]25
[Juror No. 3]26
[He Who Sits in the Gloom]28
[Mi-Lady’s Shoe]28
[Beside the Sea]29
[Winter’s Sorrows]29
[Kisses]30
[Mystery]30
[Alma Mater “Pennsylvania”]31
[Napoleon’s Tomb]31
[The Sorrows Grim Want Imposes]32
[I Would I Were Still a Boy]33
[The Same Voice]34
[Memories]34
[Old Days (a Ballad)]35
[On the Engagement of Miss Constance “More”]36
[Oh, Gondolier]36
[A Proposal]36
[Lake Geneva (a Memory)]37
[My Boyhood’s Home]37
[The Death of the Host of the Jolly Swan]38
[Oh! Tamaca]41
[One Sweet Moment]41
[Mine Tonight]42
[The Melody of Love]43
[Wives]44
[A Country Romance]45
[Word Wounds]47
[The Gondolier’s Song]48
[Avaunt! Ye Tears]48
[The Last of the Tasmanians]49
[An English Lane]51
[Words to Mendelssohn’s “Consolation”]51
[A Maiden of the South Pacific]52
[An Actor’s Epitaph]53
[The Loved Ones Left Behind]53
[Life’s Voyage in Vain]54
[The Song of the Stream]55
[Dry Thine Eyes]56
[Honor]57
[Song to the Moon]58
[To My Mother]59
[The Unexpected Summons]60
[Oh! ’Tis Sweet to Live]60
[Too Late!]61
[Song of Atilla]62
[Dreams]63
[Who Looks Beyond]67
[Ready to Die]68
[The Soul]69
[Where Life Began]70
[The Grandeur of Death]70
[The Day is Done]71
[Death’s Courtship]71
[An Appeal to Him]71
[A Christmas Carol]72
[Wilt Thou Lord Stand for Me?]73
[My Saviour Understands]74
[Help Us Great Friend]74
[Into the Valley of My Soul]75

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS SANTA FE TRAIL

The early history of the Santa Fe Trail, which runs parallel with the Santa Fe Railroad for hundreds of miles, is somewhat obscured by mystery and tradition, but from historical data in possession of the Museum of New Mexico, at Santa Fe, it can be stated with a large degree of accuracy that the trail was started by Spanish explorers three hundred years ago.

The first known expedition by Americans over the trail was made by the Mallet brothers, who arrived in Santa Fe, July 22, 1739. The first trader to follow the trail reached Santa Fe in 1763. It was not until 1804 that LaLande, a trapper and hunter, crossed the trail and made Santa Fe that year. Kit Carson was one of those who struck the trail in 1826, when he was but sixteen years of age.

The camping stations along the trail at that time were Diamond Spring, Lost Spring, Cottonwood Creek, Turkey Creek, Cow Creek (now Hutchinson, Kansas), and further on was Pawnee Rock, a famous landmark of sandstone, twenty feet high.