. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . o decipher the old andtime-stained hieroglyphics with which itis decorated, will learn that it marks thelast resting-place of some emigrant orfreighter, who, overcome by sickness, laiddown here and gave up the fainting spiritto the care of Him who gave it; or, per-chance, wid learn that the tenant ol^ thisreiitless house fell whi e defending hiswife and clii dren from the savage Inilians,who atacked the train
. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . o decipher the old andtime-stained hieroglyphics with which itis decorated, will learn that it marks thelast resting-place of some emigrant orfreighter, who, overcome by sickness, laiddown here and gave up the fainting spiritto the care of Him who gave it; or, per-chance, wid learn that the tenant ol^ thisreiitless house fell whi e defending hiswife and clii dren from the savage Inilians,who atacked the train in the gray dawn ordarker night. Th-re is a sad, brief his-tory connected with each told to the passer-by, mayhap in rude lines, possibly b) thebroken arrow or bow, rudely drawn on themouldering head-board. However rude orrough the early emigrants may have been,il can never be charged to tliem th it theyever neglected a comrade. The sick wereteuderK uursjd, the dead decently buried,anil their graves marked by men who hadshared With them the perils of the were drys, and these plains theplace that tried mens mefle; anil lu-re theWestern frontiersman shone superior to all. HIGH SCHOOL, OMAHA. 30 OKOFUTT S XEW OVKKLAXD TOURIST Others who venluied to cross the vastdesert, stretched its unknowubreailth between him and the hind (jf hisdesires. Braoe, cool and wary as the sav-age, with his unerring rifle on his (rrni, hewas more than a snatch for any red devil hemight encounter. Patient under adversity,fertile in. res>urces, he was an i7ivaluibleaid at all times; a true friend, and bitterfoe. This type of people is fast passingawa\. Tlie change wrouglit within the lastfew years has robbed the plains of itsmost atUactive feature, to those who arefar away from the scene—the emigranttrain. Once, the south bank of the Pialtewas one brodd thoioughfar •, whereon thelong trains of the emigrants, with theirwhite-covered wagons, could be seenstretching away for many mil
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