. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . hes his allegiance to Uncle Sam. A little beyond Chetopa lies a long rangeof low hills. The new Gulf route, cuttingthrough them, carries one out of the UnitedStates and into the Cherokee nation. Herethe traveler is no longer in the domain of thewhite man; the Government of the UnitedStates can protect him only through the fee-ble medium of ma
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . hes his allegiance to Uncle Sam. A little beyond Chetopa lies a long rangeof low hills. The new Gulf route, cuttingthrough them, carries one out of the UnitedStates and into the Cherokee nation. Herethe traveler is no longer in the domain of thewhite man; the Government of the UnitedStates can protect him only through the fee-ble medium of marshals and deputy-marsh-als, who exercise their own judgment as towhether or not they shall do him justice, thenearest towns lying nestled among the hills,or in the tall timber on the banks of railway runs through a seemingly de-serted land. Rarely does one see along theroute the face of an Indian, unless at some ofthe little wooden stations, or at a lone water-tank near a stream. The inhabitants haveacquiesced sullenly in the opening of theircountry to railway travel, but they do not 1 •! 1 il T J 1 J. • i. Monument erected to the memory uf Brevet-Major build near the line, and rarely patronize it. e a , near 1 on Riiej Kansas. XIX. THE INDIAN TERRITORY.
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