Redeye

A W
ESTERN

Clyde Edgerton

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

To Jim Butts

  
CONTENTS
  

ORIENTATION

THE RANCH

THE FERRY

THE TRAIL

THE MESA

ATOP THE MESA

NOTES

  ORIENTATION  

 

A WRITTEN GUIDEBOOK TO

THE MESA LARGO TOURIST EXPEDITION

(
founded 1905
)

a trip you will NEVER FORGET!! proffered April-August, annually, by

T
HE
B
LANKENSHIP
-M
ERRIWETHER
T
OURIST
C
O
.
and the D
ENVER AND
S
ANTA
F
E
R.R.

WELCOME ALL!!!

containing

A • C
OMPLETE
• G
UIDE

authored by Mr. William B. Blankenship
together with a full history of:

THE EAGLE CITY SHOOTOUT OF 1892

including MAPS (virtually to scale)

TRUE STORIES OF WILD WEST ADVENTURE

DEPICTIONS OF MEN OF BOTH NOBLE & QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER

TALES OF WILD DOGS & SAVAGE INDIANS

including

A VISIT TO THE WORLD-FAMOUS CLIFF DWELLING

EAGLE CITY!!

with its museum of authentic and enchanting relics and

MUMMIES!!

together with such sights as the Sangre de Hermanas Mountains,
Captain's Rock, Johnson's Point, Panther Ridge, &c.

ALL of the foregoing combined and presented in a manner

HITHERTO UNATTEMPTED

M
UMFORD
R
OCK
, C
OLORADO
• B
LANKENSHIP
E
NTERPRISES

          1905           

 

A HEARTY WELCOME

to all you

COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS,

From All Over the World!!!

You are about to embark upon an unforgettable seven-day tour up to the top of Mesa Largo and back! After a hearty supper of cowboy food and a short Sunday-night worship service, there will be campfire music followed by an
ORIENTATION
to our journey, culminating with starlight and restful sleep in tents.

From our starting point, the comfortable, sprawling Merriwether Ranch, home of Abel Merriwether, the inveterate explorer, rancher, and discoverer of the Mesa Largo cliff dwellings, you will be witness to a spectacular view of the easternmost tip of Mesa Largo, across the incomparable Bright Owl River. This magnificent mesa, measuring twenty miles across at its widest point by sixty miles in length, with the red evening western sky behind it, takes upon itself a dark, yet mysterious and alluring circumspect. The aura of such a work of nature will become more and more apparent as you, noble explorer, and your dozen or so compatible compatriots venture forth with
THE MESA LARGO TOURIST EXPEDITION
, fully equipped with modern conveniences . . .