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It is the desires, hopes, trials, .. pleasures, the sorrows of the race. It is the renot the scenes, that makes us 4 membered action, Fi ecall those days. The action!, The searcher for the Fountain of , Youth, the desire for knowledge, the thirst for gold. thee have led men Into the wilds; these have taken them to brave unknown dangers in unknown lands. Yes, these. the Propaganda and the , Love of Freedom, but neither of them is so strong as the desire for religious liberty. P41nee de Leon . in'the Land of Flowers: Lewis and Clarke making their way along the Oregon: the Catholic Fathers, the gold itielektri of California, and the Puritans at New ingland--the- se arta our examples. And like the latter. were the pioneers who preceded us along .. our way. And our company. too, such it was that led them. He, who fain irould liar discovered the magic waters, the home and the gold seeker left , behind them many a 'lonely 'grave. The Props- -, Life-Ora- netitu- left to lion of es! . Par weeks ahead was studied the meager information of "the route." We learned the names, geetingly odd or quaintly poetic; we pictured in the mindtho placesthems---TheImagination was heated to the utmost. Before us was a region of wonder. We had met the "boss" of the frontier, the western tough who had kindly offered with the help of big bowie knife to slit or cut off my youthful ears. Before us was the land of Kit Carson; we should pace through the domain of the Cheyenne, the Sioux, the Crow and the Inc In our path were the villages of prairie dog, the home of the coyote, and the rattlesnake, of the antelope, of the buffalo, the big horn and tha grizzly bear. Prairie creek. Loup Pork, Port Laramie. south Past Wind River mountains, Echo canyon- -0 many a name seized upon imagination and held it fast! And the names of Indian chiefsMad Wolf. Spotted Eagle. Two Axe, Rain In the Face, thy were a. from some unwritten western Iliad. t - - I I .dwall - 411 , '4' fl ). 7, i,l' , ,,.. - t Ie, t , ;.! ''.; 4, , : t t r g' 11 ill ,11 1 ) ;4 1! 4! 1 ,.. n 4.,,. ..ii,,,.... 1 4 ,,,...,,s..,; f.., ,,.... .' ' ' 1 1 : .. ,,..,... t, ....... 5. , J ., 4 , ok v I ,J22.e TV12, 9e '''' '''1, ''D .7 ,,) ;I'or-- - tA-,--s- .. - fil .." . Oa ''147 ' f .(11 Pl.: s :; ''.1 '"' lal to 481 i . ' rrri' ' ' .1' - .,.4 't . 1t t . .4',' Na- ..1-ab- in many an unknown spot. And the Pioneers! They, too, must leave their dead. But the seekers of Religious Liberty, they surely more than others must have found the greater connotation In the hour of trial. to them must have come more quickly the thought of peace. Action! It Is true. one might have become easilV wearied of the adventurous trip. The shifting panorama might have become monotonous in its shifting. Monotonous, I Mean. were it not for t repeat the wordthe action. The plain& the hills, the rocks, the streams all become important because these led the way. Ever my thought Is of the road. ittnrni but little noticed. watt tree-:nettl- ed semi-circle- - I -v The night drives were among the most tr,ing ,xperiences upon the Overland journey Usually t y avers made necesaary from the drying up of poi spring or stream where we had expected to mak., evening ramp, andithe consequent lack of Water for the people as well as tho cattle, so that we must move foreard. our worst drive of this kind was t reach the La Prelle river after itaaving Fort Laramie. There wits a terrible storm. Wildly the lightning glared. the lurid tongues licked the ground beside us. The ground was deluged in the downpour of rain; and what with the sudden flashes of light, the crashing Dr thunder, thtt poor cattle were quite panic stricken. It was hard work to make the poor brutes face the storm. Yet . after all, their sagacity, was greater than ours. Several times we would have driven them over the face of a precipice had not their keener senses warned them hack. We wouid have shuddered, no 1e aft,rwards learned. had WP 84.tm where the track of our wagons wheels were made that night. t. blood-lus- fault-findin- 4tiaL e'rjsalsothilln 81alifielst agron'in'ngg s There for water; the (lipping plaes wore often at quite a distance from the canip, !low terrible an esperience was that which occurred In one of the trains which crossed the hilts the year before our own. It w" on the ',moo, or the La noble river. A band of five dashed mit from amid a clump of moux river bank and carried away beyond trees on one of two girls who had rashlall hope y gone too far on the stream. The train rcinained at the riVer for a period Of three days, the Indians tor many miles, but it was all in were pots vain. The yoong hiniband 110'Pr PR W his young wife again. tin, "r the young girls wits slightly in advance of the otimr,and those few steps made this lie was lost and the ,dhpir. saved. differeive. woman who scapiA ,was the imii And ti. writcrs !,ist,s t Well-love- 414 crOgged. of Nurse. the year beiis onekAironger than this Sioux Who took asay i ioter at last, Death, who Is not to he gainsaid. We took the oaken wagon Rents to make her litti eolith and she wag hurled beneath the groves where ripple the waters of the Little Laramie river. Hardly MIX the moil replaced In the grave. ere we moat depart. And 0 the wild night - This ,kter fore, pit The Chimney Rock. or the half-a- y post. as it was potiletitTIPOI Ugg'etittVety called, was a m,ed picturesque object. It aas one of the Most noted landmarks to be seen on the entire trip across the After we had just sighted through the plains acst..rf, opening of a noon corral, the pale blue shall. waxy through the haze that rose from tl Ite;ited grmild, It 'teemed to us that the slow g,00tr never reach it, or rather, that thev (owe Nv",1',1 nev,r arrive at the point on The road op. ;so , that hatural curiosity. for the immigrant trail 1.,,t.ssed several tulle to the northward of that low ranee of bluffs of which the Chlinney Rock Is II part (me evening several members of our party tried to walk from our nearest camp to the terraced slopes of the. Chitnney's base, hut UV. distane proved too great. That was one looton In the dece(ptivenem of apace in that rarilled atmosphere the distance to hills and mountains. In the picture, the Chimney rtoch is shown as it . S . which, later, we Life, Romance. Death.-iindothey were trying In our little world! The space between the tvvo s of wagons niade a wide division. it War, like two sides of a street each wagon a dwelling line could hardly believe that in such a COisolated from the rest ,t mankind, such a Mpany, eeparation could exist, yet it dbl. At times the members of one side hardly knew what Wit hal.',ening among those of the other. AS we proceeded on our way what ,lianges camel mean int, tiolives and hearts of 1113 IIY. Iut C,MC thro new or come there new sorrow, the pioneer must the Pioneer life. trhere were always the labor. the R CPCtaiTi kind of pleniire. There Ica, I. ft but little time in hih To brood. excel.t it might be in the silent watches of the nistht was something remarkable. too. about the nial,ner in which the cattle became !mimed with thP spirit of the driver. Quickly they reflected the mental condition of the one who drove them. Be he calm, be he dejected, or be he peevish, and the cattle knew It at once. Sweetwater. now the itig Sandy creek-t- he glistenIt is the deep ing' gravel water of the Indians-o- r cold waters of Horseshoe creek: nue day as bathed In the Platte. Spotted Tail, the famous Sioux chieftain, and his hand of bravee passod along the banks of the river. Open noolthed stared at the wild cavalcade, and w tile wading ashore, I struck my foot againstas it proved to be upon examinationa great stone batthatxe. Perhaps it on, e belonged at SOMP rennite period of time, to anotto.r great chief in that famed and haughty warrior's ancestry. It did produce upon one a diaturbing sensation, that hawk eye, of how often the eyes of savage Indians might be fixed upon us. And the wild animal& too. Prom a distance they watched. Herds of buffalo. perhaps, or of deer, looked upon our moving trains from tho plateau tops. Beyond the fiTwirathTd the bright red of Itaming yprzi-,the tasity hill,. lb.. Sioug was often concealed. lita face was painted of the game gaudy colors. and he t iooked v.;th upon U. We knew not when this might he, yet that It VHS always possible gave a sort of aspect of Menace to the bluffs and Inli. i ng the uay. 1, his cau(:antain tion gattird !nun ,xperionce and his natIral sagacity given a timely warning. the girls must not be left too far by the passion for gathering flowers. How often had the desire to possess some especially beautiful or brilliant. sotne alluring hunch of desert blooms tempted them beyond line. ol sober-minde- and darknerat through passed! after a days dust and toil to plunge into the cooling, cleansing waters of plain or mountain stream! How many streams recall: The Elkhorn. the Platte. the Wig and Little -Laramie. Now it Its the three crossings- - of the 0 what a joy it It was tantalizing at times to keep to the road How could one resist the temptation to throw off restraint and putting prudence aside look deetter leto the wilds! This. Of course. wtut On those days when having taken the winds and eunshine unto the veins" we felt atirred within um the instincts d of primal man. At other times we were enough. One's spirits were terribly chilled by an inclement sky. A few days of drizzling rain tried the most ardent spirited. Then it was that the disagreeableness uf thc time made theof the immigrant F floW itself. Whatever traits of character he possesmedseitishness, senseor those rarer qualities of kindless ness. cheerful content and ready helpfulnessall came out. In Mark TapleY's own phrase. It was all very well to "come oirt Pt rong" when by tho warm glow of the camp fire. Or when moving along with the bright blue sky tittoNe us, but it was quite another thing to remain cheerful when the incesant rain made impossible even the smallest of the small sheltered camp tires, end one crept into his bed upon the VOUrld with wet clothes, and with flesh chilled to the bone. without even the solace of a cop of hot tea or coffee. Hardly less trying were the days of dust kerma What mia,tery It was when the wind blow (non the front and the whole cloud of dust raised by over 30) yoke of cattle. and the motion of elf,eagons. drove into our faces! How intolerably our ey . and our nostrils burned and how quickly our ears viire tiled with the flying sand or alkali. Dearly we !earned to love the Plette. EVPn if the way was dreary at tinice. we forgot it when passing along the rher banks. Day after (lay we trudged along and dy after day its fringe of cottonwood trees. er the rcti RandAtone hills,. looked down upon us. The dios grew into weeks, the weeks became a tti,,n111, tiid chill the cattle, freed from the yoke, baetenr.d to stake their thirst at the d stream. intrir,:,- - that month, we ate, each one of us, that peek of dirtif sand may be clamed as dirtwhich e,ry man im Raid to eat tionte. .1.1. tilled our ayea tech end our In ears and our nostvil.r. It was in the food, it sprinkled the pancakes. it was in the syrup that we poured upon them Vali auffocated we were at times by it Si we lay at night beneath the wagon& 0 ye elandhilla of the Platte, indeed we have caues to remember! For the Overland traveler of today, the Platte ak atMoat unknown; thre ieinVISH.Vit.ii0 4 44,t 0.11 Olt ',"141I'ti;i1"141715"411Z1IleartS .Y... i , .EILMIIIMa'.41.44.1itUILLIIRISMIZIalf.SZISN ....,,, l'' , . :i ft ':3 I:'n'l :r to 43 .1 I :!! 31 - .i ; ni,"t41 . Our aPPearea front the batiks of La train, that under 0,t1Ittin rid of Captain John D. Holladay. is meet' fording the hallow ptrestn.. The Pionitere had made an etirly start...imsd au the light of the rising sun was !trellising from behind a mass of clouds t hu t av along the student horizon. The ntsin ,00g keeping a wathti e 111,011 the Pate passuse of each Wttg,ti thn)ugli the water. for in the tool of the creek were quieksantis, and a stop v .1, atIctted e th danger. Eternal vtatlance was the trice that the captain mtuit pay to bring his ortipany h4frIy over the wiltiernese of plains and mountions lin the left hand of the picture Is seen a grave, ItlAt of one of the earlier immigrants. mountain. All hell ye or,-.-- -- ,,, -- A T 4 ti, ii 1 4 ? -- - t' nt 1!: : ti 1 ,I.: It i' 1, 't,il l' À) ', !It(;11 ;5 t.:.: , II,,Ar; 2, i', t. 2 1 ', 4 1: , I itt' 1 t' ,.r :Ii 4 ild tr; tc snow-cappe- d Funbeams . We mode in the South Pass, if I count correctly, our tn., hundredth camp fire. Delightsome days sere nurs as we nioved slowly forward through that broad and famous highway with the Wind River mountains all the while looking dawn upon is JoYfully we burst into song. That dividing lin, that mighty ridge was the "Backbone Of the -our.iirst descent We tridof, tr. Frorn their summits one might Iti the west. "t other mountains. ranging ro tius fortti,c to the wont. those whose haws were near: shors of the IMMO Sew A far cry It was over co heights and vales. and yet it brought a Meal.. -, Yti are near the pIae of rest" blame us for the time of merriment! There nay a jubilation at Chimney Rock. at Rock: 11114 at the Devil's Gate. 0 it was., Iniles.owivne0 infipd. a time of gaiety when the evening mealI was over and the call of the clarinet assembled allI In the ()pen eirelo! Men and women. the rating andt tho old ones. too. danced the hours away. Who nould have thought that they hail passed the time thu . at the end of 3 113r4.1 tlay's jourrify? Forgotc was such ten were the fatigues that were past hours as those that atoned for those that had been ivearisome of sad. Anti the clarinet' What an imiirtant part it lipid, p voi. (I thP gerioral feelint tho eolliranT, lie no); Skid or welly, like a voice It si.ike. ',Merrily en the banks ,,f tho MligsoUrt It seunded at the moment of Ytat.iig. mournfully itt .1.oko as each one that f. I,y the roadside was And shrilly It a wIlie tot for that last laid to rest n near t 51;trt end Its rmembered jwirre,-ctratos hrin Kick the Peent of the nralrle flowers and t the 111,1111111011 sago. : : t in) r i; 11::' I.1 t, trr ', .,''' 1 ) 1'; It I 4) i ci, .2 : I 1 it i ' , t: , , ''.:21 ? , 1, f, 1 ..i 'IC i! i i Pr i I 1 ,1"if 1 I ll i 1 I 1, I I , 4 3 8,1 1 1 11 a V 1 1) I i'I I I I 'rho v!liblv..,rn. nfl were emiquei'est. "The Joorney" was :It an end. l',;44LIA214',EgiLaisilUtaiia1:4,4,',04 ., t mr"F'ommfosto:.,;.',;rpmvtof,'Ttrgsrgywrp-wtllrilitnt,VtpeietltZt.trtr-gSr",""r..- ., o t'; ': tt, tell hoxy exp.- - t aney grecit upon us Net the nuniher of mlis ahead grew In5S and leas. at h Even ttmee g r.,I111 apathetic and it 1 1111110.1 silehtly al mg, m rat ,.tuestiontess on the-- n uncron,. tmga again manife:q the same eager nterest that had marked the starting nut. "Wake up Wake tip! Wako up! Roil into ths Valley" 1 'What weleolne words! Not one in the vompany but t felt the henrt swell with joy 1111:1 emotion ,, the iitM sight of the illey and mountrt.ins. and It the Inistol Sea boond lianger ami fatigue were Snui ,,,. l' ''' 31 1,Jtl: I1 ' mm,.,,.0041M.P..1M.PWP"MMOM01001MOOMIONM.MIWI.d.W, 4CTi ,,, ; gandist, the Lover of FroedoM left their bones 1 t it; "It i t, r',4, ; ;'' . III 1:,, t T1 -- : ; 'ttr I 4. At.S ii l' , 0:, , . (00- "It A b 7 Irt 1 l ; 1 t e ! , 2oc(9 101J. cokeftb2740,;. ....." ti t:c ),,9?;-6rLei-,-402'the- Vio 4 MEW ' !tii F aa7(..Y:16,b-eA7Ci.29-J 75a ,4. ' , t (212 ., tl. .0 - . izrf.,' 4' i (.! , ,., ,..,,,,, .:...t,z7. . .1... , ',.'''', ,7 - "Im t i i . Immtemiroo i i ; -rr .0 , z. ' if I , - , ; Ipnrity r I :' g tand ,4 uVinti as, in as. In e 5 k 1 e ilon n II 4, leitt: etage-coac- 1 1 ,, ;,4 , o... the wrst, and will ever stand forth among events. Indeed, the world had heretofore veon ,:itl nothing like it, and in the very nature of things its repetition Is improbable, if not impossible. It must now Ar'r'IN be read; it cannot be experienced. 0 the long, plodding; the slow progress of seemingly endiees days! incidents of many kinds thrust themselves upon one's memory. Sometimes the experiences recalled were pleksoreable; sometimes they were sad. But mirthful or tragic, pathetic or terrible, the imagination gees over them again, and the twelve hundred miles nay the fifteen hundred considering the circuitous route that each cornpony was compelled to follow. pass before one like moving panorama. Prairim, hills, streams. mountains, canyons follow each other in quick SUCCPPSienAll the ever changing prospect between the banks of the Missouri river and the valley of .. the inland Sea. How ratildly we.have ff rt,wn wasOnet 'hurt. a dream of the future first changed to reality. and then sunk away until now they are but dreams of the past. No more the long train of dust covered wegons, drawn by the slow and patient oxen, winds across the level plains or passes through the deep defile. No more the pony express or the h runs between the inter- lumbering mountain region and "the states." How hard it la In underetand the briefnems of time that has passed since this great intermountain country was practically a howling wilderness inhabited by band. of savage Indians and penetrated only by intrepid trappers or hunters. As we are whirled along over the Laramie plains, through the Echo and Weber canyon reclining on luxuriotinly cushioned seats, but a few hours away from the Atlantic seboard, we can scarcely realize it. We are in a land where peace, wealth and happiness go hand In hand and where already It is well nigh ImpoZsible for the youths of today to fully ecunprehend the struggles arid privations of Its pioneer fathers. . i 1 4,' ia ii ii ; , r 41. 0 a) , : air,',,hrilctr'pllnaecle1lIn"thlitn:lhstsattp,rryorno; i il '' i .4 1 ,,,,:7 . 5 ' I 1 ti 1 ----.' , , ..,7,7-...,-,- '- "i 0 . 111,---,--" , t - - ,1 ' "t - , , e. ,,,,.,i t 1 ;, ' 1 tt it $ P , P , L111. ' : , - , I tra, ' , i t - tt, ..: ,'1.- 0 , 4,i ,.,- - s c ; ,. .:..i.t.. t i :11 41 ft t i , , :.' 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