The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-01

some personal experience Of how they
felt, provided hit them otherwise they
had the best of it, as they often did.
and ] presume had no sympathy for me.
An autumn morning upon the Ne
braske prairies Those who have aeen
1t cannot describe it an ! those who have
not would not believe were only the
half told. What boundless prospect !;
stretching awsy end away in gentle
fluctuations like the waves Of the sea,
the landscape lies before us in its virgin
beauty. To ine brought up where hills
or belts of timber or other distractions
always hemmed in the view, there is al
idea OF vastness that borders on the
sublime, though Nebraska 10 said to have
no sublime scenery, no lake, oliff, cave
or cataract, no glacier avalanche. geyser
or volcano. Stretching four hundred
miles up the Eastern slope of the Rocky
mountains, it appears nowhere mountain
Gus to the eye. With al upward grade
of about eight feet to the mile beyond
Missouri River, at the hea0 waters Lf
the Republican River it begins to be
broken more or less by bluffs on the
streams, which finally occupy most OF
the ARIA, hut comparatively little "high
prairie" being on the 'divides." OF
course as we proceed westward the land
and water levels are continually getting
further apart, until in Colorado the
river beds and "draws" are huge canons.
whers the waters Of the melting SHOWS
OF the mountains beyond, seem to have
cbiseled their way to an outlet. In the
eastern portion of the state these pro-
visions fer natural drainage seem coeval
with the geological formation; while
further west they seem more the work
of violence and disruption: "a hiatus af-
fected by waters or some unknown
agent. TIE only relief to the naked
prairie expanss are the streams fringed
by timber the sight Of which is ever as
welcome as the shadow of a great rock
in |. weary land" Out Of the settlements,
travellers are compelled mainly to follow
these streams ; as fuel and water, SO
indispensable, are no where else to be
obtained as we found sometimes to our
cost, until we reach the Republican
river our campings over night are 1t
School Greek, and Little Blue River
The routine of each day isso much
like another, that description of one
may answer tor all. Early in the
morning our coffee pot, SO indispensable to
the hunter, monopolizes the lions share OF
the camp fire, always in company with the
fryiDg-pan These may be considered the
sins qua non of Western camp-lfe. The rest
Of our breakfast falls In der, and all Ia
soon dispatched with an appetite which
none save campers on the plains know
l am afraid it might not make our company
popular should be too minute In describing
our toilet. | have heard 1t limited that to
wash the hands or face under such circu m"
stances was not unlikely to make them
chap, and that the hair uncombed Is quite
as we'll In that terribly windy country. On
one of the divides where called to purchase
told that they had to bore "orful" deep
there for water / thought the childrens
hands and faces bore witness to that fact,
or soma other. Our horses are soon on the
wagons and our days journey commences.
Hating again at noon horses and men again
refresh the inner man. If we are crossing
divide supply of water must be taken
for the journey, unless some one more sap
lent than the rest knows where there Is q
"buffalo hole," where a few pailsful may
stand. Water, have found, does not BE-
come impure as in the eastern ATTITUDES
The high altitude. the purity Of the atmos-
phere, and it may be something in tho COM
position Of the soil seem to prevent its
stagnation. At nightfall we halt our hor-
ses are Embarrassed and fed and finally for
the night "picketed" out upon the buffalo
grass, If we are SO lucky as to find any.
The coffee pot and frying pan are again in
requjsition, aid supper disposed OF with a
zest. One covering is stretched, our robes
and blankets spread for our bed, after
which most Of the company generally choose
to while away an hour or two about the
camp fire, with that faithful attendant OF
the huuter, the pipe, each perhaps In turn
the company with fearful ad
venture. or hairs breadth escape. Frequent
ly several camps are near each other and
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