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They were large enough toaccommodate six to eight horses, and had, partitionedfrom the stalls, o After Johnstons armyhad decamped, the lumber left by them at Camp Floydwas used for some stations. The stations, as before, were scattered along the trailfrom eight to sixteen miles apart, according to the water.These stations were mainly low dirt-roofed structures,built of logs or adobe or rock.
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Instead of the pony riders dashingon their wiry horses over prairies and mountain anddesert, now came the stage drivers with their sturdyhorses, four or six-in-hand, rolling along in their great Con-cord coaches, loaded with passengers, mail, and express. Shortly afterward the telegraph linewas completed across the continent. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacra-mento, California. iu the boot of the CHAPTER TWENTY THE OVERLAND STAGE Just before the soldiers left Camp Floyd, the OverlandStage line was opened from St. I kept on swicging through the desertsConcord stage. The young ladies began to wear caUcodresses, and I even saw young men who could afford towear calico shirts and soldiers blue overcoats and smokestore tobacco. Thepoor people that had been Uving on greens and lumpydick for two or three years now began to get very wealthyand proud. That summerthe gold mines were opened in Montana and everythinghad to be hauled with ox teams, and the same oxen wehad bought for eighteen dollars were worth from onehundred and fifty to two hundred dollars a yoke. Theremust have been as many as ten thousand oxen bought atfrom twenty-five to fifty dollars a yoke. I bought a yoke of oxenfor eighteen doUars and a new wagon for ten. That spring the great war between the North and theSouth broke out, and General Johnston sold all of thegovernment cattle and wagons very cheap, and wentback East with his pack mules.
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I havesometimes wondered if that bullet was not sent especiallyfor me. The one shot was all we heard,and we did not even see the one who fired it. Lee Libraryĭigitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young UniversityĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.ĭe. Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY : World Book Co.Ĭontributing Library: Harold B. Subjects: Wilson, Elijah Nicholas, 1842-1915 Shoshoni Indians Frontier and pioneer life Title: The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the ShoshonesĪuthors: Wilson, Elijah Nicholas, 1842-1915 Driggs, Howard R. Image from page 180 of "The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones" (1922)