. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. sweepmg the entn-e val-ley. Out of this apparent expanse of rushing watersthe rugged form of the bluffs loomed up in blunted, the bleached bones and grinning skull of a human skeleton, which, bj-certainsigns, tjiey recognized for the remains of Scott. This was sixty long milesfrom the place where they had abandoned him; and it appeared that thewretched man had crawled that immense distance before death put an end tohis miseries. The wild and picturesque bluffs in the neighborhood of his lonelygrave have ever sin
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. sweepmg the entn-e val-ley. Out of this apparent expanse of rushing watersthe rugged form of the bluffs loomed up in blunted, the bleached bones and grinning skull of a human skeleton, which, bj-certainsigns, tjiey recognized for the remains of Scott. This was sixty long milesfrom the place where they had abandoned him; and it appeared that thewretched man had crawled that immense distance before death put an end tohis miseries. The wild and picturesque bluffs in the neighborhood of his lonelygrave have ever since borne his name. NEARIXG THE ROCKllCS. ^I blurred and c.\a<j:i;-cratcd outline, a lia/y, drraniy,tremulous atmosphere the while lending- its wen-d-hkeeffeet to the seene. We now beo-an to eateh an oeeasional glimpse ofthe outer and hio-her peaks of the Roeky Peak was the first of these to greet us. ina few days more we passed Fort Laramie, where weentered the Blaek Hills, so ealled from the daik ap-pearanee at a distanee of the serubby eedars eo\ enn,u-. LARAMIES PEAK—REDRAWN BY PERMISSION FROM THE CENTUKVFOR MARCH. 1891.) the region. The road had beeome rougher and thesoil more parehed; but the change was hailed as awelcome relief from the long-continued had actually growm weary of good roads, andsighed for something to shake us up. Another wel- 1 This peak was the first mountain that any of our immediate imrtv hadever seen, and its proportions appeared to us very formidable. 32 ENTERING THE ROCKIES. come change was the abundance of fuel, and the num-erous mountain streams of pure cold water. We heremade our first acquaintance with the artemisia or sage-brush, which was thenceforward to be our chief re-liance for fuel.^ The North Fork of the Platte, from which on leav-ing Fort Laramie we had made a detour of eightymiles, we crossed on a craft constructed of cottonwooddug-outs pinned together, which was purchased andsold by those who in tur
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