The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
western Names and r.


The writer has within the L.
years mined' Isl nearly every MIMI.
camp in the United States, from Penn
sylvania to California, thence to Oregon,
Washington Territory and British Co
lumbia, on the Frazer River and in Carl
boo, and being something of rowing
cabinet and observer, he has picked up
and stored away, from time to time,
names and phrases which he now pro-
poses to work into a sort of machine
poetry, taking unto himself all the poet
ical license allowable in this advanced
age of frontier poets and dizzy rhyme
sters. sr
FOLLOW THE TRAIL, IT's RED HOT.
Jls From Hels Delight to Smuggler's Bar,
.s3 Across Blue Gap to Hungry Bear,
'os From Roaring Camp we take the car
ne To Methodist and Never Swear.
Tip Top Black Jack, The VOLTS Retreat, .s
50 Near Roaring Fork, where Lone Jack struck it,
And thence to Hhngtown, Wake up Pete,
And Let Her Rip TO Nip aRd Iaeklt
rs Now, Go Ahead, Take In, FTeevill,
81 Long Pun, it's true. from Nothing Doing.
Don't Flicker Ont at Bottle Hill,
7H For Whisky Ranch is cross Blue RUM
Then strike the trail of Tim Buck Too,
~ Go Up the Fl1me 80 Hill o. Quaker.
Through Hot Divide and Wandering jew
~ To DEVILS Ride hear Hsli's Half Acre.
g SlumgaiIionvil le, Lookout Mud Springs,
~ And Lousy Ridge, are near CoOn's Hollow.
Cross Bloody Run and SmaSh-Up Bridge,
sg Dead Beat, Dead BrCke and BOTTOM Dollar.
Drive slow across the Angels Swamp,
W Let Slippery Jack, Hard Up for game,
Turn loose when near the Gipsle's Camp,
And Murdefsr's Barr, near Sailed Claim.
IS Leave Red Dog Gouge Eye Out o. Sight,
- Lost (abiniA where You'll near the story
How Poker Pete from Hells Delight, ..t
I. Broke Six-Ioed Bill, Of Ground Hog glory.
How Tom The Top from Bitter Pill Ell
.& Addressed Pug Jake as Mistah Speakah.
s They dOused his glim at Dismal Hill,
~ And Slugville people cried Eureka!
Then Monte Joe, from Lady's VAIL 9
I. Crossed Niger Guleh by Greenhorn Cutoff
Through Badger IiOie cor Bull Dcg Trail, g,
u Near jackson, at the mouth of Shutof,
WeF1y Away, past He'll Town Claim,
3 I'd Stop Short, Last Chance, now What's the
~ Matter? ~
/. Why, Muggins Tom, while dying game, s.5....,
% Turned Loose Cold Lead at every elatter.
3 Now Skin Her Out toward Last Jump,
'NCinch Up while passing Rancheree, t-~f
! Or Two To One youth IIurg Up Stump e..
o AT Robbers BOOST OF Climb Tree. U N''
Tsrantula's Nest is just Hard By, 80.
"a Here Jacknm's Band cleaned out The Babble,
While Long-Neckei Dick and old Bill Nye
3 Used BO0merangs, without Hardscrabble.
+ Still further on We Wake Up Jake ....
pa To Set I'm Upat Dead Coyote, H 81"
J I Well have Free Lunch on Rattlesnake,
. And good Rawhide from Minnesota BAR
Y ( Down Meecasn to Dismal Heights 81 -..
Fl, To Hornets Nest and Horned Toad Level,
Where Skin Flint Sam preached Womans
o. Rights,
q And always played to beat The Devil. .-..
Bullet Us from old Shasta's heights, a.4tI
, / Look down, recall some names now dying.
From G IS Point 10 Three Red Lights, "
/ % Near Fifer's HILL while underlying t
g / Is Fly Blow, Hy-Yu, Take the Socks,
, / 8gTo Soap Springs, where on Mad Mule, Co.
q AT HorsetOwn, Dog Greek, and Mad Ok,
( f Where lives Mike Finch, the boss Of Sligo
In Trinity you'll find Billie Bells. 'tf
Big Flat can boast Of Golden City,
Near Newton's Fork, where Buckshot tells
/ 10 How Slap-Jack Jake plugged Little schmidty.
4 The FoTiy-EineTs went it blind,
- / sdAnd planted names in curious order,
1 / And that is why you'll Never Find
Much classic jargon on the border. if.t' t-..
SO Let 'Er Pass-we1l shoot Wild Cat. d.! a.r
{ 81 With Moonshipe, near 10 Miners Glory,
, And drink Old Port at Poker Flat,
/ NEAR Shady Grove and. Root Hog Canyon,
{ J III here Kansas Kit oft told the story
no OF fhantom's Slide. The Scouts Retreat, Ia. u
5 ( Where Grizzly Jake oft bagged his meat ~
/ lfWith Scar Faced Tom his Boone" COM
1978H,Pp aniOOtnaa 4;ua aa a9e Bon or,.
! But here / must " collapse "subside," .,r.
g Walk up 10 Ran-ta-iod-lar bar. +
The reason Dry Up City died % r.., ts tt......
d Because the Fed Rock was too far.
so Ill dry up and well you may. a l..i .-.
, Thank you, my friend, but AaTy's lamb
? OH shoot the lamb! All ght, FaiTplay, %
{ "a, And you may SO to- Yuba Dam, -......
+ 'H'V"'et = --Lara,1ie Bdometonq.