Illustration: Down the main street of Yavapai] A hundred yards from the Manzanita House was a corral and in it a score of young horses were being held to await shipment.
Of this fact Bayard made sure when, from his work in the little blacksmith shop, he saw a horseman riding toward the ranch from a wash that gouged down into Manzanita Valley.
Far below him and running outward like a great tinted carpet spread Manzanita Valley.
In another room of the Manzanita House another woman fought with herself that night.
Summer reddens the berries of the manzanita and mellows the poppy-blazoned slopes to tawny saffron.
A wash of manzanita tea, Grindelia, or even buckthorn, she insisted, was excellent for poison oak.
The fire had been eating slowly through a stretch of manzanita chaparral, whose hard stems resisted them as the evergreens could not.
They ground acorns and manzanita berries into meal with the stone mortars and pestles so commonly found through the countryside and gathered and stored great caches of pine burrs full of nuts for the winter.
He clutched unavailingly at a manzanitaand rolled into a circle of inky blackness.
The valley swam under a haze of pure heat; a buzzard hung motionless over the cabin, and the dry air was sweet with resinous scent of pines and manzanita and even of tarweed.
I know an old Indian who was terribly frightened by an old monster grizzly and her half-grown cub, one autumn, while out gathering manzanita berries.
Very quiet but very quick they were, and when all the nets had been unwound and stretched out in a great letter V far up the hill, it was seen that each brown boy had a long, heavy manzanita wood club in his hand.
As the manzanita berries began to turn the mountain sides red and the brown pine quills to sift down their perfumed carpets at our feet, I began to feel some strength and wanted to fight, but I had had enough of Indians.
The time came when under the burning rays of the sun he was compelled to abandon the walk across the tips of the manzanita bushes and take to the winding, open threads that ran between.
Halfway up the Rim the growth of manzanita gave place to open, yellow, rocky slope dotted with cedars.
So he literally walked across the tips of the manzanita brush.
Manzanita grew in patches that were impenetrable except for a small animal.
But in the darkness he had climbed to the manzanita slopes instead of back up the canyon.
The steers that ranged these ravines were wild as wolves, and in the tangled thickets of juniper and manzanita and jumbles of weathered cliff they were exceedingly difficult to catch.
And the warden would have handed it to him, despite his past experience with the beast; but suddenly the coyote headed straight off for a low manzanita bush that stood up amid the scraggly sagebrush back from the shore.
Unable in the darkness to penetrate the thickets of manzanita and other undergrowth, utterly bewildered and overcome with fatigue, he had lain down near the root of a large madrono and fallen into a dreamless sleep.
The crisp manzanita wood crackled as the flames leaped up and assailed the dry bark of the larger logs.
He dropped down the rough, winding road through covered pasture, with here and there thickets of manzanita and vistas of open glades.
This was due mainly to her efforts, while Daylight, who rode with a short-handled ax on his saddle-bow, cleared the little manzanita wood on the rocky hill of all its dead and dying and overcrowded weaklings.
He now found himself in a nook of several acres, where the oak and manzanita and madrono gave way to clusters of stately redwoods.
Manzanita and scrub-oak, however, flourished and walled the road on either side with a jungle growth.
Very frequently he gave as an excuse for his absence that he intended to go in search of manzanita berries or hunting in some distant locality, sometimes announcing a stay of several days.
Here he found a bear standing erect and eating manzanita berries.
On this journey he hunted for soft, sweet manzanita berries, finally returning to the practice ground after covering a great distance, perhaps a hundred miles, in this half day.
She scoured the ledges far and wide alone; she dipped into dark copses, and scrambled over sterile patches of chemisal, and came back laden with the spoil of buckeye blossoms, manzanita berries and laurel.
The feast of the manzanita berries was past, and the feast of acorns, and after the autumn hunt came the feast of venison.
In the autumn the choke-cherries and manzanita berries dried upon their stems, and ripened acorns rotted to dust upon the ground after the squirrels had gathered their winter store.
When the Mo-no men came to Ah-wah-nee to the feasts of the manzanita berry and of acorns and of venison, they brought their women with them.
Just about two yards above that manzanita bush an' a yard to the right," he finally concluded.
The man scratched his head perplexedly and looked a few feet up the hill at the manzanita bush that marked approximately the apex of the "V.
On the slope the blossoms of the wine-wooded manzanita filled the air with springtime odors, while the leaves, wise with experience, were already beginning their vertical twist against the coming aridity of summer.
The manzanita shoot yielded its roots, and horse and man plunged over the edge and out of sight.
Best time to pull a tooth," she said tersely to a terra cotta red manzanita bush, "is when it aches.
There were delightful drinks too, from the manzanita and the chia.
In the canyons and arroyos, the chaparral and manzanitagrew in dark olive-green thickets.
He himself sat on his heels before a little fire of dead manzanita roots, cooking his coffee and bacon.
And above the grove of manzanita was a flat top to the hill, from which I could see three ways, and all ending in cloud-wrapped mountains, that had shape and were blue of some kind, as far as you could see.
Or was he for some obscure reason still hiding under the dry manzanita tops?
From the sunny chaparral came the scolding quit-quit-quit of mother quail, while the pompous cocks perched themselves at the tops of manzanita bushes and whistled, "Cut that out!
Then from not far distant there came the familiar clatter of a dry pine cone in the manzanita tops.
He found a fourth hole soon, and near it were manzanita stumps, the tops of which had been cut off with an ax.
They came to a pause at the edge of the sidewalk beside an aged villager, who stood leaning on his crooked manzanita cane as he gazed at Poche and his silver-mounted trappings.
Up the steep mountainside back of the reservation the goats and burros of the Showut Poche-dakas browsed contentedly on buckthorn and manzanita bushes.
Soon the river was lost to view again, for once more the trail had been cut through a seemingly impenetrable chaparral of buckthorn, manzanita and scrub oak.
Then he crossed a brook and was among chaparral and manzanita bushes.
In the open places manzanita ran riot, its waxy green leaves contrasting with the dust-laden asters and coarse grasses by the roadside.
He was confronted, however, by the sudden apparition of Joan from behind the manzanita at its side.
The air was perfectly still, but the leaves of a manzanita bush near the misshapen cactus were slightly agitated.
He took the trail, and passing in silence incredible for such a bulk, he threaded chaparral and manzanita on and down through tule-beds till the level plain was reached.
He get much rotten manzanita and eat till drunk--locoed--then go crazy and keel sheep just for fun.
He helped her upon a high, flat-topped boulder that overlooked the balsam thicket and manzanita slope, and together they faced the debauchery of the flames.
The smoke was rolling now over the manzanita slope, and he could not pierce its murkiness.
He chopped dead manzanita bush and carried it on his back to his hide-out, and was tickled with the pile he managed to store away in one end of the cave.
Down there, beyond the trail, on a slope where the manzanitawas not quite so matted together, he saw something move slowly.
He knew that the slope was not yet afire, but the wind was bearing the flames that way, and the manzanita would burn with a zipping rush once it started.
Manzanita was the closest, and that was brushy stuff.
And down there on the manzanita slope, little flashes of light kept calling, calling, and Jack dared not answer.
But the wall of manzanita stopped her before she had penetrated a rod into it.
After that they climbed up into a more open country, clothed with interlaced manzanitabushes and buck brush and thickets of young balsam fir.
For perhaps a mile he watched them going down through the manzanita and buck brush toward the massed line of balsam firs that marked the nearest edge of the heavy timber line.
Then his eyes went to the blackened manzanita slope where Marion had been idling, and he shivered at what might have happened down there.
The manzanita slope where the girl had sat and signalled with her mirror was all charred and stripped bare of live growth, and the flames were licking up the edges beyond.
And when the fire struck that manzanita it would just go swoosh in every direction at once.
Riding home through the cactus and manzanita Ajax said irritably, "Is there any Paradise on earth without a fool in it?
The tough boughs of the manzanita thickets through which he had plunged had scourged him like a cat-o'- nine tails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manzanita" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
