. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ached the scene of the terrible butchery and gatheredand buried the frail remnants of humanity, the shrunken shreds ofhuman flesh that remained from flame and torture, the charred bonesfound among: the embers, and the body of the little babe whose facehad opened so suddenly upon the early morning of life eternal in theland of sons and flowers. ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 185 Through such sav
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ached the scene of the terrible butchery and gatheredand buried the frail remnants of humanity, the shrunken shreds ofhuman flesh that remained from flame and torture, the charred bonesfound among: the embers, and the body of the little babe whose facehad opened so suddenly upon the early morning of life eternal in theland of sons and flowers. ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 185 Through such savage tortures and rapine were the early paths ofcivilization in the far West opened. It is the maxim of the Christianworld to-day that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the the traveler approaches the city of Rome his gaze is first attractedby the lofty spire of the Cathedral erected by the Christian nations ofthe earth in commemoration of the early martyrs of the church. It issaid to stand upon the very spot where the ancient Roman circus stood,within whose arena the inhuman emperor cast the despised Christiansto be torn in pieces and devoured by ravenous wild beasts. It towers. A MARTYR PIOXEER. above all other objects of the Seven Hills. If you enter Borne by wayof the Gate of the Arch of Titus and stop to gaze upon the inscriptionsand designs carved upon its broken columns and fallen friezes, thoseheralds of Hebrew captivity, the lofty dome of St. Petei-s rises beforeyou. If you wind your way through the by paths of the Palatine andover the crumbling ruins of the temples of the Caesars, or hard by thebanks of the yellow Tiber, its lofty spire silvers in the sunlight as itkisses the clouds. 186 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. And so has the mighty West been built upon the blood of its mar-tyrs. Upon the very spots where many of its pioneers fell from barbar-ous torture, stand cities, towns and settlements, as if to commemoratetheir dying struggles. By the sid
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