This descriptive article, begins in early spring on the Arizona Utah border. With the author and two other men’s. In the article When the Full moon shines its Magic Over Monument Valley. The author uses magnificent elements of description. Such as moon rise, Navajo wearing, and sunset.
The purpose of the three men is to see the full moonrise over the vast expanse of the dessert.
The author describes how he and the other two men hallucinate a Navajo girl he describes it a the mysterious magical surroundings by associating it with a Navajo wearing a long dark velvet dress and gleaming ornaments silently drifting with a flock of ghostly sheep to a waterhole. The tree men also hallucinated that a dog appeared. They offered the dog food, the dog accepted the food, and then disappeared.
The author describes the sunset with beautiful figurative language like “Of the evening afterglow brush tipped all the spires and cliffs with magenta, Deeping to purple, and the sand ripples stood out like miniature ocean waves in darkening shades of orange.” Page 476 paragraph 5