IN the whole eastern dark
wall of the Divide this night there was silence and the whisper
of the wind, except in the
ravine where we roared; and on the other side
of the Divide was the great Western Slope, and the big plateau that went to Steamboat Springs, and dropped, and led you to the western Colorado desert and the Utah desert; all in darkness now as we fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land.