The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-05-31
Leaves From Tent Life-NO. s.

The Pi Eutes and the Rappahnes ate the prIn-
ripal tribes in The TruckIe valley and are very
intelligent indiana. These we the tribes that
deiealed Maj ormsby's parry, some seven or
eight years ago. We pas ed over heir battle
grmuud aud camped neaf the graves OF ron Il
then Vichms. We had sooner pitched ouI
tents than we weie '!nonged with Indians, VIII"
seemed % rise up from The ground, 70 silently
.. -udde"ly id they 1pUeH .uumrnerab'e
squawa al l. papp o, VIII Oh they carried on hei'
Uarks, strapped . b"ard with willow w"rB
shaded over their heads, and buckSkin nailed
along the edge Of the boar d, and strapped over
them, sqratled ground. TIE Truckie valley RI
ses RAPIDLY aud the RI er is offer
Distracted by stones ana vast edges OF rocks
over which il tun.bles wildly with destenins
roar Some lines tie mountains came 40 clnse
to II that the road was cut in its rocky side just
above the water line, and often after it benz
ar und thus, before us would be one OF the
suugpert nltle lasches, with a sma new framed
b use STR. unded By a vegetable garden, and
tie ri, +, h..~ ing in wider channel peacefully
hr ueh it. .E.
We a>ceuded the valley rapidly and soon
reached The graded road leading through Han
ness pass and commenced winding up the noun
taIu> on Il Ioad cut in lts side. On our lett rose
ihe m nuhra II hundreds of feet above us, lts
sides ihick!y set with aromatic teathery pines,
and it's brow hoary with never-melting snow =
To the right we ouked down deep, deep into {
ravine, whose forests of pines waved their top
musr branches far beneath our feet, and silvery
rivulets, pure as the snow from which they trick
led down the mountain, wa'hed the rough roots
as they ripped ON their way. After ascend ing
we went rapidly down into a amooth grassy val
sy. The Nevada mountains are composed o
ridges which rise one above the other until thu
summit ridge is attained, and between these
ridges are beautiful little valleys with clusters
trees, and often Iraversed by little brook is
SUNG from GEAR spring. When within tive
mites of the summit, we assembled steeE
,edse and wound round peak, and before u
ay T uckie Lake The straugeness aud beauty
+ thi. little lake, thousands of feet above th'
,ea, Graded among snow-capped mountains, Il
uncomfortable. Ii must he about five miles il
circumference with pines growing from the steer
muun,ain sides close down to the water which
cumes in TO the white sanded shore in wild lttl,
mlluws This lake is the source of Truckie
river, which ieaves 1t on The northwest eide il
deep, narrow, rapid stream, and tumbIins
down ledge after ledge of rocks i'll foaming
.eelhing casca es runs its noisy brief and rapiC
course, and empries into Pyramid lake, which il
sixty miles long.
The road posses along the western shore o
Tiuckie lake, aud on TO the summit through {
region wild and rocky, even for mountainous
one. The summit must be a cherries place il
winter with the cold, deep, impossible snow
| lying white around and the ever-sounding wal
of The wintry winds among the pine trees Blu
II IL beautii al and cool in gu mer. Down TN
| Nevada We went past manzaneter bushes
chapparai Ihicbets with evergreens still reach
ing over US, until we reacued the foot hills
where tie live oak aud pine shake hands, anC
chant their weird song in The summer breeze
| AID on into the Sacramento valley where thu
| Nevadas and coast range circle their Snow,
| perks around you save to the southwark. ThO=t
glorious old mountains, perpetually crowned
| it would seem one had never looked upon God
| nobest works, until he had numbered those
| Here in this broad valley, with the Sacrament.
| sweeping; through It, we leave you, trusting II
| the future to meet again.
| THISTLEDowN