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 JANUARY SUNSET

WALTER V. WOEHLKE Contributing Editor

CHARLES K. FIELD Editor

LILLIAN FERGUSON Associate Editor

WE MAY BE PARDONED for remarking that we think the color pictures in this number of are particularly fine and especially the three pictures which pertain to New Mexico, the land of the turquoise sky. The frontispiece, one of the best examples of Maynard Dixon's painting of the colorful Southwest, is a reproduction of a canvas which has recently been a feature of two of the winter exhibitions in San Francisco. The photographic studies of Indian life by Karl Moon were almost paintings when they went to W. H. Bull to be colored for reproduction. These art pages illustrate the curious and picturesque interest of New Mexico while the more sober pictures portray the practical wonders that are being wrought in a fertile desert by the application of water and intelligent labor.

The original of “The Lass o' the Lasso,” on this month's cover, is Nan Aspinwall,the girl who made a sensational horseback ride from San Francisco to New York last year and who won a championship this year for “fancy roping.” Of the West Western!-

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COVER DESIGN: The Lass o' the Lasso W.H. BULL From a photograph by [[Author:George F. Stratton|George F. Stratton

California's Christmas Trees Title page

Spirit Canyon, New Mexico Frontispiece Reproduced in colors from the painting by Maynard Dixon

The Land of the Turquoise Sky E. ALEXANDER POWELL, F. R. G. S. 67 New Mexico's revelations to tourist and settler Illustrated in colors

At the Top of the Mast PETER B. KYNE 81

We would like to know where any one has noted a stronger short story by this writer

Illustrated by Arthur Cahill The Man Who Won

WILLIAM R. LIGHTON 97 Second instalment of the story of a struggle which already becomes so keen that Cass Burdick exclaims: "Lord Almighty It's a complicated life You've fixed up for us!" Illustrated from drawings made in Wyoming by {{al|Arthur Cahill

The Continuous House MILO HASTINGS 111 A New Plan for Agricultural Colonization in the West and one of the extraordinary exhibits in the Department of Social Economy at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Autobirds of Passage E. ALEXANDER POWELL 117 Chapter Two in the log of the Sunset Car, land-cruising from the Mexican border to the Alaskan frontier Illustrated in colors

The Battle of the Brands CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS 129 Fifth instalment of the prehistoric romance of Grom and A-ya, describing a terrific fight Illustrated by Paul Bransom

Prisoners DOROTHY B. MACPHERSON 140 A day in a girl's life

Stately Homes of California. PORTER GARNETT 145

"Anokia" the residence of Mrs. Anita Baldwin McClaughry in the foot-hills of southern California

Illustrated in colors

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