Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-10-14

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SO wide that the farther side melts into
the horizon, and uplands so vast as
70 suggest the unbroken prairie. Nearer
nc mountains the valleys dip deep and
ever deeper till they narrow Into can
yohs tnroush winch mountain torrents
pour their DUO gray waters from
gIaciers that lie giistening between the
white peaks far away.
Here are the great ranges on Which
1ecd nerds OF cattle ana horses. Here
are the llomes of the ranchmen, IN
whose Wild. free, lonely existence there
mingles much Of the tragedy and
eomedy, hse hllmor and pathos that go
70 make up the Romance OF NE. Among
them ARE TO be found the most enter
prising, the most daring, OF the peoples
OF the old lands. me broken, the out
cast, the disappointed-these too have
round their way to the ranches among
the foothills. A country IT is whose
SUMMIT nils and shaded valleys reflect
themselves In the lives OF Its people.
Tor nowhere are the contrasts OF light
ana shade more ylvldly seen than IN
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Dertas.
The experiences of my life have con-
firmed In me the orthodox conviction
that Providence sends his rain upon
the evil as upon the good; else should
never have set my eyes upon the foot
hill country, nor touched Its fascinating
life, nor come to know and love the
mr. of mo sfNfn al fHOf tyrnr nf
striking men of the foothill country
the dear old Pilot, as we came to call
him long afterward My first year in
college closed In gloom. My guardian
was in despair. From this distance
of years pity him. Then considered
Min unnecessarily concerned about me
~ -fnssy old hen" as one of the boys
ggestcd. The invitation from Jack
ale. a distant cousin, to spend sum
Ter with him on his ranch in south
81 lberta came in the nick Of time. !
Ras wild to SO. MY guardian hesitated
zlhnSs but no other solution OF the prob
lem OF my disposal offering, ne nnally
agreed that could not welleget into
more trouble by going than by staying
Hence 1t was that, in the early sum
mer OF one OF the eighties, found my
self attached to Hudson Bay COM
pany freight train, making our way
from q little railway town IN Montana
toward the Canadian boundary
4 Our train consisted or Blk wagons
and fourteen yoke of oxen, with three
cnyuses, In charge OF French hair
breed and his son, a lad of about six
teen. We made slow enough progress,
but every hour Of the long day, from
the dim, gray, misty light OF dawn to
the soft glow of shadowy evening. was
full OF new delights to me. On the
leyening OF the third day we reached
the line Stopping Place, where Jack
Dale met US. remember well how my
heart beat with admiration OF the
easy grace with which he sailed down
upon US In the loose jointed cowboy
style, swinging his own bronco and
the little cayuse he was leading for me
Into the circle of the wagons, careless
Of ropes and freight and other i'm
pedimenta. He flung himself off before
his bronco had come to a stop and gave
me q grip that mnde me sure of my
welcome. 1t was years since he had
seen man from home, and the eager
JOY in his eyes told OF long days and
nights Of lonely yearning for the old
days and the old faces.
I came to understand this better aft
er my two years stay among these
hills that have strange power on
some days to waken In man longings
that make his heart grow sick. When
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hing :
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hroken comm and ,yero raadu for orr
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httle animal, with more white in his
eye than cared to see. Altogether.
Old not draw toward him Nor did. he
10 me, apparently. For as took him