The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-07-04
From D.nrer.

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Capt. Jno. c. Lester 10 MAJ. Frank
Mathews, Of this place, dated Den
yer City, Colorado, June 18th. The
Captain is enthusiastic in his praises
OF the country through which he
passed, as also the city of Denver
and surroundings. The trip was
long but the tedium Of travel was
relieved by varied and novel scenes
/ presented to the eye. lie says:
The trip from St. Louis to this
Iplace was quite interesting. The
first forty or fifty miles is on ?
country that's considerably broken,
and at places somewhat rugged. We
! passed through several tunnels.
7 though they were small We then
came to the Missouri river. along
the southern banks Of which we
came about q hundred miles and
passed some rich bottom lands
where corn grows as luxuriautIy as
any 1 ever saw. In fact I don f
think have ever seen such sDIen-
did fields Of corn. After leaving
the river we came over high rolling
plains to Kansas City, and passed
some magnificent country before
getting TO the last named place.
The first hundred miles after leaving
Kansas City is through rich tim
bered country; we then strike the
prairie, and ali tinker disappearing
except an occasional shrub along
the banks Of some stream, for five
hundred miles. You see nothing
then in the way Of vegetation but
grass, and as far as the eve can
reach you can see it waving in the
breeze, which always seems to be
blowing in q perfect gale on the
Prairies. These winds are perfectly
terrible, and q man hat is a per
feCtly useless article when he has to
contend with them, for he couldn't
hold it on with both hands. I was
walking from one car to another on
Saturday while the train was in mo
ton, and my new beaver was lifted
from my head rs gracefully as YOU
please. I saw it light off IN the
grass few steps away, but the
train rolled on, not needing my mis-
fortune. l gazed ut it long and
wisttully and felt quite melancholy
at its loss. We saw thousands and
tens Of thousands Of cattle in cross
ing the plains. Sometimes there
seemed to be as many as three or
four thousand in q herd. and it was
not q sight to be despised, I assure
yOU. But we missed what we an
ticiPated most pleasure in seeing.
the buffalo. We only saw a few,
and they were a long distance from
Us. But our disappointment in
that respect was somewhat Ielicved
at getting to see quite a number of.
antelOpes, and occasionally q prairie
wolf and any number Of prairie
dogs. They are the sauciest little
creatures l ever saw, and l think I
could kill q hundred q day with
shot gun. Any one, after travelling
all day over the plains, and seeing
no evidence of his getting across |
and nothing but the same bound /
less vacant space as 1t were, can't /
help but wonder what could ever
have induced any one to have /
crossed them at all, and it is hard to /
pUrsuadc himself that there is any,
thing worth the trip in crossing, or /
If there is that any considerable /
of people have found it out. .
But when he gets there he can well 1
why they have come,
and can hardly help wondering why
it is that everybody has not come
l took quite q jauut around the
city this morning and saw a cOnsid- {
erCblo portion of it. A bran nsg
city is a pretty thing and this looks
as new rs a silver dollar, and yet this
has all the evidence of being q city: !
at least if there is anything wanting
I can't think of it just now. You
see every kind of people here: the
wild ITishman, the ubiquitous
Dutchman, the Heather Chinee, the
everlasting Yankee, and occasional
" a Johnny Rcb, English and
French, and now and then an In
dian, etc, all mixing and moving
and driving ahead at every kind Of
business that Is carried on at any
place. New stores, filed with new
goods, all the new STYLES. Dolly
Warden, flourish here extensively.
You see new buggies, with fast
horses hitched to them, driving over
the pretticst roads in the world.
These roads arc truly delightful, no
dust and as smooth as q 1oor. Fat
men and rosy cheek lasses-eyery-
thing wears q new and cheerful APP
pcarance. Strawberries are now IN
the market, and I never saw them
finer anywhere. We saw apricots.
apples, pears and plums from Cali
foruia, all of which were very tempt
ing to the eye. INDUCED SliaL..33y.
And ifyou ever tire at looking at
what IS new and attractive about
y0u, You have but to raise your
eyes and the scene is changed to
one quite different and far more
mteresting-tha is the snow capped I.
peaks Of the Rocky Mountains. I
never conceived of anything so
beautiful as they
are, l have racked my brain for
some time trying to express my
feelings while looking at them, but
| find 1 viii have To give it up. / /
can't do justice 20 the subject. Il
can just say that they are grand.
glorious, magnificent, sublime, and
if there is anything that expresses