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Show Military Reservation in Early Kaniia. I All nlong tho outer margin of tho reservation res-ervation were grouped tho camps of emigrants; em-igrants; not many of them, but enough to present a curious and picturesque sight. There were ft few tents, but most of the emigrants slept in or under their wagons. There were no women or children in these camps, and the hardy men had been so well seasoned by their past experiences, journeying to this far western part of the territory that they did not mind the exposure of sleeping sleep-ing on the ground and under the ojien skies. Soldiers from the fort, off duty and curious to hear the news from the outer world, came lounging around the camps and chatted with tho emigrants in that cool, superior manner that marks the private soldier when he meets a civilian civil-ian on an equal footing away from the haunts of men. The boys regarded these uniformed military servants of the government of i the United States with great respect, .ind I even with some awe. Thesn, they thought to themselves, were the men who were there to fight Indians, to protect the border, bor-der, and to keep back tho rising tide of wild hostilities that might, if it were not for them, sweep down upon the feeble territory and even inundat the wholo western country. Noah Brooks in St. Nicholas. |