Chapter XXVI: sub-heading changed to mixed-case small-caps for

consistency with all the other Chapter sub-headings.

Pages 213-215 (Chapter XVII, paragraph 4, which begins "Lieutenant Collins was born in Hillsboro, Ohio,"): the paragraph contains unbalanced double-quotation marks, which have been retained.

Most illustrations have been moved slightly from their original positions.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Awakening of the Desert, by Julius C. Birge