. The Pacific tourist . EAKLY MORNINO SCENE OK THE LARAMrE PLAINS. ern towns in the early days of their same class of human beings that had popu-lated and depopulated North Platte, Julesburg,Cheyenne, and other places, lived and flourishedhere until the next move was made. They weregamblers, thieves, prostitutes, murderers—badmen and women of every calling and descriptionunder the heavens, and from almost every nation-ality on the globe—and when they could preyupon no one else, would, as a matter of course,prey upon each other. The worst that has everbeen written of these charac
. The Pacific tourist . EAKLY MORNINO SCENE OK THE LARAMrE PLAINS. ern towns in the early days of their same class of human beings that had popu-lated and depopulated North Platte, Julesburg,Cheyenne, and other places, lived and flourishedhere until the next move was made. They weregamblers, thieves, prostitutes, murderers—badmen and women of every calling and descriptionunder the heavens, and from almost every nation-ality on the globe—and when they could preyupon no one else, would, as a matter of course,prey upon each other. The worst that has everbeen written of these characters does not depictthe whole truth; they were, in many cases, out-laws from the East—fled to escape the conse-quences of crimes committed there, and eachman was a law unto himself. Armed to the veryteeth, it was simply a word and a shot, andmany times the shot came first. Of course those where mentioned, Laramie has the location ofthe territorial penitentiary, a snuvll wing ofwhi(!h is already constructed, and wh
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