A STUDY IN SCARLET - PART - 2 - CHAPTER - 1

by Arthur Conan Doyle in English Human Science

PART II. The Country of the Saints. CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN. IN the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as ...Read Morebarrier against the advance of civilisation. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado upon the south, is a region of desolation and silence. Nor is Nature always in one mood throughout this grim district. It comprises snow-capped and lofty mountains, and dark and gloomy valleys. There are swift-flowing rivers which Read Less