Written lot Short Stories 1893. The eternal prairies stretching away — beyond the ken of time and space, and out of the barren flatness a naked, purple mountain rising abruptly, as if to say: "With God all things are possible," This, and in the shadow of this great rock in the weary land, a handful of low stone and adobe buildings, constituting a one-company Arizonian post. The fifty bronzed soldiers drawn up stiffly, with arms reversed, in regulation fashion, had, moved by a common impulse, uncovered their heads and relapsed into more than disciplined silence.