. Cruisings in the Cascades [microform] : a narrative of travel, exploration, amateur photography, hunting, and fishing, with special chapters on hunting the grizzly bear, the buffalo, elk ... Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. CHAPTER XXIV. S?^!';'"'^ in-^TIX(. ox THE TEXAS PLaIXS. ^IlE "Texas boom" was at its lieight ill 1870, and tlieiv was a grand rnsli of of all nationalities and conditions of people to the then Xew Eldo- rado. Thousands of men went down there to make money. lAIany of them had not the remo
. Cruisings in the Cascades [microform] : a narrative of travel, exploration, amateur photography, hunting, and fishing, with special chapters on hunting the grizzly bear, the buffalo, elk ... Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. CHAPTER XXIV. S?^!';'"'^ in-^TIX(. ox THE TEXAS PLaIXS. ^IlE "Texas boom" was at its lieight ill 1870, and tlieiv was a grand rnsli of of all nationalities and conditions of people to the then Xew Eldo- rado. Thousands of men went down there to make money. lAIany of them had not the remotest idea how this was to be done, but from the glowing .stoiies atloai regardincr the resources of that wonderful coun''- ..... try, they felt sure it could be done in some way. The little town of Fort AVorth was tlien on the Irontier-that is, it was one of t^/e most ^n' T' '"'r^ '"'^''^'^ ->nununicat ". a^ as the efore one of the important outfitting p ,i„ts lor parties into the wilds. A <.,,.," „• nv were going further west, <m all kinds of ;:;^:di;r scmie in search of minerals, «ome in search of dt^ ,K^^^^ The village consisted of a public square, around ^na Imnting on which were a row of cheap o e story, P^ and frame buildings, most of wh ch w^ occupied as saloons and o,,nibling houses. Eut (213). n. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shields, G. O. (George Oliver), 1846-1925. Chicago; New York : Rand, McNally
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