Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys . , and almost as brown as a redIndian, and he soon explained to me themystery of my not hearing from him. Hehad sent a telegram to Chicago, which I neverreceived, requesting me to go straight on toBozeman, and he had driven in to Bozemanfive days successively, twenty-four miles eachday, to meet us, and of course was as muchbewildered about me as I had been about passenger agent at Bozeman had putwrong initials on the telegram I had sent fromSt. Paul, and the post-ma
Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys . , and almost as brown as a redIndian, and he soon explained to me themystery of my not hearing from him. Hehad sent a telegram to Chicago, which I neverreceived, requesting me to go straight on toBozeman, and he had driven in to Bozemanfive days successively, twenty-four miles eachday, to meet us, and of course was as muchbewildered about me as I had been about passenger agent at Bozeman had putwrong initials on the telegram I had sent fromSt. Paul, and the post-master had refused togive it up for two or three days; when bychance Frank met the passenger agent, whotold him about the telegram and explained hismistake to the post-master. At last he gotthe message, and he then started off at oncefor Livingston and the Park, and met uscoming out of it, instead of accompanying usthrough it, as I had planned. 128 MY HOLIDAY IN THE ROCKIES. In due time we reached Bozeman, and byseven oclock in the evening of the day afterour first meeting we were safely housed inFranks little log LETTER No. XIII. Livingston to Bozeman—Bozeman City—Arrival atFranks ranche—Franks progress—The shanty—Kitten and mice—Aroused by a ground squirrel—Variation of climate—A snowstorm—Our bedsdrenched—*Baching it—Shaving under difficul-ties—Situation—Fertility of the soil—Cultivationof strawberries—Fine grazing district—Climate—Story of our holiday on the ranche—Fishing inWest Gallatin river—New bridge and old canoe—** The coloured aristocracy —Three bear stories.
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