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29317
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English
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My Summer in a Mormon Village
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Boston, NY
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Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
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196
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"When I tell people that I went from New York to spend the summer in Utah, they look at me with such polite amazement that I hurriedly explain my errand. My friend, an enthusiastic student of birds, after her summer of study in Ohio and Colorado, was looking for new worlds to conquer. I went with her for the birds and the climate,-- the too little known climate of the dry elevated region between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, known to geographers as the 'Great Basin' of America. Utah and Arizona have this basin climate and are the natural sanitariums of our continent, far surpassing the Adirondacks, Florida, and California in elevation, dryness, and recuperative effect,-- especially in pulmonary difficulties..." [From the text]
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