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CHAPTER XXI.
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We were approaching the end of our long journey. It was the morning of the twentieth day. At noon we would reach Carson City, the capital of Nevada Territory. We were not glad, but sorry. It had been a fine pleasure trip; we had fed fat on wonders every day; we were now well accustomed to stage life, and very fond of it; so the idea of coming to a stand-still and settling down to a humdrum1 existence in a village was not agreeable, but on the contrary depressing.
Visibly our new home was a desert, walled in by barren, snow-clad mountains. There was not a tree in sight. There was no vegetation but the endless sage-brush and greasewood. All nature was gray with it. We were plowing2 through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house.
We were coated with it like millers3; so were the coach, the mules4, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous5 color. Long trains of freight wagons6 in the distance envelope in ascending7 masses of dust suggested pictures of prairies on fire. These teams and their masters were the only life we saw. Otherwise we moved in the midst of solitude8, silence and desolation. Every twenty steps we passed the skeleton of some dead beast of burthen, with its dust-coated skin stretched tightly over its empty ribs9. Frequently a solemn raven10 sat upon the skull11
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ribs
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plaza
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vacancy
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buffalo
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trifling
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peculiar
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machinery
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privately
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ranch
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aristocrat
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sumptuous
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luxurious
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tenants
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retinue
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lucrative
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labors
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