Bennet, Robert Ames: Bloom of Cactus. V1. 25 Jun 2011
Robert Ames Bennet (1870 – 1954) was an American western and science fiction writer. Several of his novels were made into films.
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AS Lennon drove his heavily packed burro over the round of the ridge above the camp spring, all the desolate Arizona waste around him was transformed by the splendour of dawn. Up out of mysterious velvety blue-black valleys loomed the massive purple-walled fortresses and cities of the mountain giants, guarded by titanic skyward towering pyramids and turrets of exquisite rose pink.
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