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Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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o the Eaton Brothers, where we were surprised by the many appliancesfor comfort en garfon. A tame antelope fawn, playful as a kitten, and amedley of buffalo heads and elk and mountain sheep horns, as well as othertrophies of the chase, diverted us, and stories were told of the large andsmall game which the neighborhood supplies to those who know how to#shoot it, which would make even the least enthusiastic sportsman long totry his luck. A lavish game dinner, including tender buffalo steak, washeddown with rich milk and good water, and a dessert of canned fruits, wasjust the thing to satisfy appetites made unusually keen by the brisk ridein the dry, pure air. These Eaton boys, whose hospitality we had so agree-ably tested, are from the East, and they have money enough invested insheep and cattle to carry on a very respectable wholesale business in anylarge city of the Union. Having enjoyed their hospitality as long as ourtime would admit, we left their * shack, which is the common name
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The Bad Lands. 133 for a substantial log house, reinforced by one of these happy ranchmen—ayoung chap who sat his horse as though he were a centaur, and looked apicturesque and noble figure, with his clean shaven cheeks, heavy droopingmustache, sombrero, blue shirt and neckerchief with flaming ends; in fine,a perfect specimen of the noble manhood finish which this breezy, boundingWestern life often gives in a few years to the Eastern born and bred youngman. After visiting a coal vein which has been smouldering constantlyever since the country was known to the whites, and from time immemorial,according to Indian tradition, the fire of which is visible at night from thetrain, we inspected the Maiden of the Park/ the Watchdog, andothers of the buttes which bear more or less resemblance to the things afterwhich their sponsors named them. We also chipped ofispecimens of petri-fied wood, full of sparkling, silicious crystals, from the mammoth treetrunks turned to stone, which crop out fro

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