. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. uth of Kansas INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 165 river, but in the State of Missouri. Here the vol-unteers also landed, and immediately set abouttheir preparations for marching in the and I retreated to the hotel, and, after longdelay, succeeded in obtaining a bed. The site of Kansas City is about the last placewhere a common man would have thought of lo-cating a city. Perpendicular hills—hills oval —hills ragged—long slopes—abrupt ascents, withravines and gorges, deep or yawning wide in wildconfusion—all
. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. uth of Kansas INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 165 river, but in the State of Missouri. Here the vol-unteers also landed, and immediately set abouttheir preparations for marching in the and I retreated to the hotel, and, after longdelay, succeeded in obtaining a bed. The site of Kansas City is about the last placewhere a common man would have thought of lo-cating a city. Perpendicular hills—hills oval —hills ragged—long slopes—abrupt ascents, withravines and gorges, deep or yawning wide in wildconfusion—all seemed to forbid house - buildingthereabout. But it is a good point for trade ; andso Mammon — or Anglo-Saxon energy, or Ameri-can enterprise, just as you please—has dug andlevelled and built. The houses fronting the riverare reared against the bluff, with its summit farabove the roof; and in the rear end, and even inthe third story, you have the earthy odor peculiarto a newly dug cellar. Yet, with all its ups anddowns, trade flourishes, and the city 166 INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. LETTER XX. FROM KANSAS CITY TO WESTPORT—FACE-OP THE COUNTR1 BUSTLING TIMES AN ACQUAINTANCE BLACK CARPET-BAGS A SHARPES RIFLE SHAWNEE MISSION—A RICH FARM A RIDE THE QUAKER MISSION ATCHISONS CAMP—THE CLIMATE. Retiring just before day, we slept till after,-the- hack, which runs daily to Westport,called at the door for passengers. We took ourseats, and departed to run the gauntlet of whichmy steamboat friend had notified me. JSTot somuch from courage as from downright unbelief, werode along with perfect composure, making obser-vations on men and things in general. The coun-try is broken, but rich and heavily timbered; thesoil deep, dark, and capable of producing anyagricultural product adapted to the climate. Thecattle—of the finest stock and the best of theirkind—keep fat on blue-grass and clover, and, com-pared with our Southern runts, make a Southern ma
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