comes upon the scene is one of comparative security and good order piety is not the of the roads with and the of the and is repressed not a lady s life in iii the population once is now about it is an ill arranged set of frame houses and and rubbish heaps and of deer and produce the smells i have smelt for a long time some of the houses are painted a blinding white others are there is not a bush or garden or green thing it just out on the boundless brown plains on the extreme verge of which three peaks are seen it is utterly looking and in bar room looking characters and looks a place of low mean lives below the hotel windows freight cars are being perpetually but beyond the railroad tracks are nothing but the brown plains with their lonely sights � now a solitary at a travelling then a party of indians in paint and feathers but up to the point of carrying mounted on sorry the up riding on the baggage then a drove of long cattle which have been several months eating their way from with their escort of four or five much in hats blue coats and high boots heavily armed with and repeating and riding horses a wag the of gold in the black hills has lately given it a great and as it is the chief point of departure for the it is increasing in population and importance � july letter the rocky mountains with a white drawn by eight oxen is probably bearing an and his fortunes to on one of the dreary spaces of the settlement six white each with twelve oxen are standing on their way to a distant part everything suggests a beyond september i have found at the post ofl ce here a circular letter of recommendation from ex governor hunt procured by miss s kindness and another equally valuable one of and recommendation from mr of the republican whose name is a household word in all the west armed with these i shall plunge boldly into i am suffering from and produced by the bad smells a help here says that there have been fifty six deaths from during the last twenty days is common humanity lacking t wonder in this region of hard can it not be bought by dollars here like every other included last night i made the acquaintance of a shadowy gentleman from far gone in consumption with a spirited wife and young baby he had been ordered to the plains as a last resource but was much worse early this morning he crawled to my door scarcely able to speak from and bleeding from the begging me to go to his wife who the doctor said a s in iii was ill of the child had been ill all night and not for love or money could he get any one to do anything for them not even to go for the medicine the lady was blue and in great pain from and the poor infant was roaring for the nourishment which had failed i vainly tried to get hot water and for a and though i offered a negro a dollar to go for the medicine he looked at it a tune and said he must wait for the pacific train which was not due for an hour equally in vain i hunted through for a feeding bottle not a maternal heart softened to the helpless mother and starving child and my last resource was to dip a piece of in some milk and water and try to the creature i applied s leaves went for the medicine saw the popular host � a bachelor � who mentioned a girl who after much difficulty consented to take charge of the baby for two dollars a day and attend to the mother and having remained till she began to i took the cars for a settlement on the plains which i had been recommended to make my for the mountains fort september it gave me a strange sensation to upon the plains plains plains everywhere plains generally level but elsewhere rolling in long like the waves of a sea which had fallen asleep they are iii the rocky mountains covered with grass the withered of flowers spanish and a small shaped one could gallop all over them they are peopled with large villages of what are called dogs because they utter a short sharp bark but the dogs are in reality we passed numbers of these villages which are composed of raised circular about eighteen inches in with sloping passages leading downwards for five or six feet hundreds of these are placed together on nearly every rim a small beast sat on his hind legs looking so far as head went much like a young seal these creatures were acting as and themselves as we passed each gave a warning shook its tail and with a ludicrous flourish of its hind legs into its hole the appearance of hundreds of these creatures each eighteen inches long sitting like dogs begging with their down and au turned is most grotesque the wish ton wish has few enemies and is a most animal from its enormous increase and the energy and extent of its operations one can fancy that in the course of years the will be seriously injured as it the ground and renders it for horses the seem usually to be shared by and many of the people insist that a is also an but i hope d a lady s life in hi for the sake of the harmless cheery little dog that this unwelcome fellowship is a after running on a down grade for some time five distinct of mountains one above another a lurid blue against a lurid sky themselves above the sea an american railway car hot and full of was not 