Westward hoboes - Winifred Hawkridge Dixon

Published October, 1921
Reprinted twice in December, 1921

PRINTED AT
THE SCRIBNER PRESS
NEW YORK, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	Westward Ho!	1
[II.]	From New York to Antoine’s	7
[III.]	A Long Ways from Home	15
[IV.]	Chivalry vs. Gumbo	25
[V.]	Nibbling at the Map of Texas	35
[VI.]	“Down by the Rio Grande”	47
[VII.]	Sandstorms, Bandits and Dead Soldiers	60
[VIII.]	Tucson	74
[IX.]	Twenty Per Cent Grades, Forty Per Cent Vanilla	82
[X.]	The Apache Trail and Tonto Valley	98
[XI.]	Friday the Thirteenth	121
[XII.]	Why Isleta’s Church Has a Wooden Floor	148
[XIII.]	Sante Fé and the Valley of the Rio Grande	160
[XIV.]	Saying Good-by to Bill	190
[XV.]	Laguna and Acoma	204
[XVI.]	The Grand Canyon and the Havasupai Canyon	220
[XVII.]	From Williams to Fort Apache	234
[XVIII.]	The Land of the Hopis	244
[XIX.]	The Four Corners	258
[XX.]	Rainbow Bridge	270
[XXI.]	The Canyon de Chelley	296
[XXII.]	North of Gallup	308
[XXIII.]	On National Parks and Guides	326
[XXIV.]	The Nail-file and the Chippewa	346
[XXV.]	Homeward Hoboes	358

ILLUSTRATIONS

The silver bracelet, Walpi	[Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
Our first camp, Texas	[52]
San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson, and the Rapago Indian village	[76]
Doorway of San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson	[78]
Great rocks seem to float on the stream, mysteriously lighted, like Böcklin’s isle of the dead	[116]
Natural bridge, Pine, Arizona	[118]
The church at Isleta	[152]
Her bread was baked, delicious and crusty, in the round outdoor ovens her grandmothers used as far back as B. C. or so	[154]
Against a shady wall, all but too lazy to light the inevitable cigarette, slouches, wherever one turns, a Mexican	[164]
A Mexican morado, New Mexico	[166]
The museum of Santa Fé	[166]
Santa Domingo woman	[176]
Taos woman	[176]
Koshari: rain dance: San Yldefonso	[176]
Rain dance, San Yldefonso	[178]
Cave dwellings in the pumice walls of Canyon de Los Frijoles, Santa Fé	[182]
Artist’s studio in Taos, New Mexico	[188]
Coronado was the first white man to visit this ancient pueblo at Taos, New Mexico	[188]
The car sagged drunkenly on one side	[200]
Fording a river near Santa Fé	[200]
On the way to Gallup	[200]
Pueblo women grinding corn in metate bins	[206]
Pueblo woman wrapping deer-skin leggins	[206]
Acoma, New Mexico	[212]
Burros laden with fire-wood, Santa Fé, New Mexico	[212]
At the foot of the trail, Acoma	[214]
The enchanted mesa, Acoma, New Mexico	[214]
A street in Acoma, New Mexico	[218]
The Acoma Mission, New Mexico	[218]
In the Grand Canyon of the Colorado	[222]
A Navajo maid on a painted pony	[222]
The land of the sky-blue water, Havasupai Canyon, Arizona	[224]
Horseman in Havasupai Canyon, Arizona	[226]
Panorama of Havasupai Canyon, Arizona	[228]
Mooney’s Fall, Havasupai Canyon, Arizona	[232]
A trout stream in the White Mountains, Arizona	[240]
The village of Walpi	[250]
Oldest house in Walpi	[250]
Young eaglet captured for use in the Hopi snake-dance ceremonies	[254]
Second mesa, Hopi Reservation	[256]
A Hotavilla Sybil	[256]
Navajo Mountain from the mouth of Segi Canyon	[278]
Rainbow Bridge Trail near Navajo Mountain	[282]
Crossing Bald Rock, on Rainbow Bridge Trail	[284]
Rainbow Bridge, Utah	[286]
Monument country, Rainbow Trail	[294]
Rainbow Bridge Trail	[294]
Entrance to the Canyon de Chelley	[298]
Quicksand; Canyon de Chelley	[300]
Near the entrance of Canyon de Chelley, Arizona	[302]
Cliff-dwellings, Canyon de Chelley, Arizona	[304]
Casa Blanca, Canyon de Chelley, Arizona	[306]
Navajo sheep-dipping at Shiprock	[312]
Cliff-dwellings, Mesa Verde Park, Colorado	[316]
Shoshones at sun dance, Fort Hall, Idaho	[322]
A Shoshone tepee, Fort Hall, Idaho	[324]
Camping near Yellowstone Park	[328]
Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park	[330]
Glacier Park, Montana	[332]
Blackfeet Indians at Glacier Park, Montana	[336]
Two Medicine Lake, Glacier Park, Montana	[344]
Wrangling horses, Glacier Park, Montana	[344]
A Mormon irrigated village	[354]
The “Million Dollar” Mormon Temple at Cardston, Alberta, Canada	[354]

WESTWARD HOBOES

CHAPTER I