Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-06-25
Letter from Joe.
MAY "a, 1869.
I" GODS COUNTRY .

with the term has bred contempt for /
ile place to which it is applied af- .
ter going over " the place " again. |
Goods country" is phrase mostly |
made use of by disappointed young
men frequently found sweating and |
bleeding for gold (see Pollock's |
Course of Time) in the different min
ing camps of the Pacific Coast I;
young men who lett indulgent pa
rents aud confiding, tender sweet |
hearts and things back in " the
States," to go "the plains across
in quest OF fame and fortune, and
the like beautiful CONCENTRATIONS and
roaring realizations The reason |
left Gods country was to avoid the
excessive parental Indulgence in my
favor-beech gads and SIGH. On the
score of young maidens, | find that
"the girl | left benin me" has
generally been a sensible sort of fe-
male, and looked out for herself if
she hadn't she would be in devil
of a fix now. | called on several of
them, of course, but how changed,
"dear Tom," since the time We cut
their names and things on the beech
trees some years ago at least, |
counted two babies apiece, and one
at the breast, where | couldn't touch
with a ten-foot pole for some time
after was weaned. Well, it does
seem sort Of funny, to say the least
how boys and girls and things change
in comparatively a few years. But
I was going on to define God'scoun
try. According to the old school
Presbyterian faith lin which was
christened, though it woald have
been all the same had been dipped
in stump water, l expecD this eli
mate may he correctly called Gods
Countrywide extremes of heat and
cold are suggestive of the punish
ment CORE spending to the future OF
heterodox patients. Those youn g
men referred to above, when they
become disguised with the mines o.
The Pacific coast and declare the
whole thing as "played out in '49 "
don't generally find Gods Country
Just what they expect to when they
return. find many of them marrl-
ed and doing well enough perhaps,
| but the "free off-hand" style OF
which they had taste. and the
balmv breezes Of the Pacific, left an
indelible impression on their plastic
brains, which not even the pleasures
of the honeymoon (whatever that is
can remove they all want to return
but the encumbrances attached are
like dragging a heightened chain =
the young benedict is like dog with
I
a chain and stick fastened to him &c
keep him inside the old house-yard
the links and wood represent his
family connections back to those
about ready to die. l pity him
He is the only thing have discover
ed that gets. an iota OF sympath,
from my heart =; display a sort o
mechanical sympathy once III a white
for this or that Object of distress
but the young man | am talking
: about mostly, causes me 20 gilsh oc
casion ally. The cir. left behind M
having got n head of me about tel
years, it leaves me yon see at per
feet liberty to bestow myself JUS
when and where ] please. | tel
them all that it don't begin to pay t
bundle a girl mp and take her over
land the way she shonld go, and per
!, haps when she gets there some othe
son of gun with more money thai
T have will cause her to depart froI