What to see in America . feet above highwater mark, so that during the winter it does not snow much,we being above snow^ line ; but in the summer the snow cloudsrise above us, and then the surprised and indignant agri-culturist is caught in the middle of a July day with a terrificfall of snow. He is virtually compelled to wear his snowshoesall through his haying season. This is annoying andfatiguing. The snowshoes make his progress , he tangles his feet up in the windrows and falls onhis nose. Again, the early frosts make close connectionswith the late spring blizzards, so tha
What to see in America . feet above highwater mark, so that during the winter it does not snow much,we being above snow^ line ; but in the summer the snow cloudsrise above us, and then the surprised and indignant agri-culturist is caught in the middle of a July day with a terrificfall of snow. He is virtually compelled to wear his snowshoesall through his haying season. This is annoying andfatiguing. The snowshoes make his progress , he tangles his feet up in the windrows and falls onhis nose. Again, the early frosts make close connectionswith the late spring blizzards, so that there is only time for ahurried lunch between. Aside from these little drawbacks, and the fact thatnothing grows without irrigation except white oak clothespinsand promissory notes drawing interest, the prospect for the agricultural future ofWyoming is gratify-ing in the extreme. The railroad crossesthe Continental Di-vide at Sherman, fif-teen miles south ofLaramie, at an alti-tude of a trifle overeight thousand Snowshoe Rabbit 366 What to See in America On clear days Pikes Peak can be seen one hundred andseventy-five miles to the south. Gold was discovered in 1867 on the Sweetwater River,which joins the North Platte in the central part of the state,and a large inrush of population followed. Cheyenne wasfounded that year, and about six persons wintered there. It has developedinto a prosperous modern^^g/MBBf^ city, the largest in the ^^^^^H^Hm state, and the capital. ^WHWWBiB||L Cheyenne has always .fs^Mft been a great live stock #? center. The memory of ^i the Wild West is kept alive by the annualFrontier Days cele-bration at which broncobusting, steer roping,and Indian dances arefeatures. In the northeasternpart of the state, on theBelle Fourche River,thirty-two miles from therailway town of Moor-croft, is the curiousDevils Tower or Bear Lodge, a natural obelisk of columnarbasaltic rock, one thousand two hundred feet high, andtapering from a base diameter of
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