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Title: Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Marston, E. (Edward), 1825-1914
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rd, where the railroadfrom Duluth joins our line. There we crossthe Mississippi, and thenceforth our route isalmost in a bee-line due west to the Pacific.On leaving Brainerd we pass through theLake Park region, and for some distance thescenery is charmingly diversified by finetimber and lakes, on which may be seen flocksof wild ducks and larger water-fowl, some-times a solitary prairie chicken, and hereand there a well-fenced wheat farm withgood buildings, and surrounded by manylarge ricks. In the neighbourhood of Detroit,Min., is the White Earth Reservation of theChippewa or Ojibway Indians, of whom thereare 1,500 civilized and Christianized. It isonly about twenty years ago that this countrywas devastated by the murderous Sioux,when more than 3,000 men, women, andchildren were most inhumanly butchered. Now we reach Fargo, and are in theneighbourhood of the famous wheat-fields ofDakota. It is in this neighbourhood that those enormousfarms are located which extend further than the eye
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98 MY HOLIDAY IN THE ROCKIES. can reach, and upon which in harvest time an army oflabourers are employed. One of the largest of thesebelongs to a firm of which Mr. Oliver Dalrymple isthe chief. They own about 75,000 acres, or 117 squaremiles.—Forest and Stream, At Bismarck we crossed the Missouri river(the big muddy, as it is called), over asplendid three-pier iron bridge. The viewone gets of the upward reach of the river andits muddy banks is fine. The bridge hasthree spans of 400 feet each and two ap-proach spans of 113 feet each; it is said tohave cost a million dollars. The Missouri ishere 3,500 miles from the Gulf of Mexico,and 2,800 feet wide, being still navigable for2,000 miles further to the north. At Mandan we come upon Mountain time,that is, we lose an hour since leaving Niagara.We reached Mandan at 12.50, and started at12.10 by the time-table, having remained theretwenty minutes. We are now approachingPyramid Park, the celebrated Bad Lands,but our train is two hours behi

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