. The Pacific tourist . EAKLY MORNING SCENE ON THE LARAMIE PLAINS. ern towns in the early days of their same class of human beings that had popu-lated and depopulated Xorth Platte, Jnlesburg,Cheyenne, and other places, lived and flourishedhere until the next move was made. They weregamblers, thieves, prostitutes, murderers — badnrui 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 cha
. The Pacific tourist . EAKLY MORNING SCENE ON THE LARAMIE PLAINS. ern towns in the early days of their same class of human beings that had popu-lated and depopulated Xorth Platte, Jnlesburg,Cheyenne, and other places, lived and flourishedhere until the next move was made. They weregamblers, thieves, prostitutes, murderers — badnrui 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 small wing ofwhi(;h is already constructed, and
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