Beautiful descriptionsof the American west, From Captain Thomas Mayne Reid published 1860.
"The Scalp Hunters"
Follow me, with the eye of your mind, through scenes
of wild beauty, of savage sublimity.
I stand in an open plain. I turn my face to the north,
to the south, to the east, and to the west ; and on all sides
behold the blue circle of the heavens girdling around me,
Nor rock, nor tree, breaks the ring of the horizon. What
covers the broad expanse between ? Wood ? water? grass ?
No ; flowers. As far as my eye can range, it rests only
on flowers, on beautiful flowers.
I am looking as on a tinted map, an enamelled picture
brilliant with every hue of the prism…
Yonder is golden yellow, where the helianthus turns her
dial-like face to the sun. Yonder, scarlet, where the malva
erects its red banner. Here is a parterre of the purple
monarda, there the euphorbia sheds its silver leaf. Yonder
the -orange predominates in the showy flowers of the asclepia ; and beyond, the eye roams over the pink blossoms
of the cleome.
The breeze stirs them. Millions of corollas are waving
their gaudy standards. The tall stalks of the helianthus
bend and rise in long undulations, like billows on a golden
sea.
Who planted these flowers? Who hath woven them
into these pictured parterres ? Nature. It is her richest
mantle, richer in its hues than the scarfs of Cashmere.
This is the "weed prairie." It is misnamed. It is "the garden of God."
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