. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. MUSHROOM ROCK,On Alum Creek, near Kansas Pacific R. R.—From a INDIAN ROCK, on Smoky Hill River, Kansas—From a Photograph. MUMMIES MADE MODERX. Wi llie track running between them. Two sandstoneblocks, each weighing several hundred pounds,
. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. MUSHROOM ROCK,On Alum Creek, near Kansas Pacific R. R.—From a INDIAN ROCK, on Smoky Hill River, Kansas—From a Photograph. MUMMIES MADE MODERX. Wi llie track running between them. Two sandstoneblocks, each weighing several hundred pounds, layin front of one of the stores, and there, sure enough,impressed clearly and deeply upon their surface werethe tracks of human feet. They had been discoveredby a Mr. J. B. Hamilton on the adjacent bluifs. There was something weird and startling in thisvoice from those long-forgotten ages—ages no lessremote than when the ridge we were standing uponwas a portion of a lake shore. The man who trodthose sands, the professor informed us, perished fromthe face of the earth countless ages before the oldestmummy was laid away in the caves of Egypt; andyet people looked at the shriveled Egyptian, andthought that they were holding converse with one wholived close upon the time of the oldest wrested secrets from his tomb, and called themvery ancient. And now this dweller beside the greatlakes had lifte
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