. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . that were soon to b.^ar the ironhorse were laid past the town on the 9th day ofMay, 1888, and on the day following, the tir^ttrain arrived and discharged its freight. Lara-mie maintained the character of all these west- who were respectable, and who desired to do alegitimate business could not endure for a longtime, the presence and rascalities of these bordercharacters. There being no l
. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . that were soon to b.^ar the ironhorse were laid past the town on the 9th day ofMay, 1888, and on the day following, the tir^ttrain arrived and discharged its freight. Lara-mie maintained the character of all these west- who were respectable, and who desired to do alegitimate business could not endure for a longtime, the presence and rascalities of these bordercharacters. There being no law in force, thenext best thing was a resoit to lynch was the experience of Laramie. Laramie is now an orderly, well-governed city,where the rights of person and property are re-spected, and forcibly rendnds one of the quiettowns in the East. All saloons and other placesof like character, are closed on the Sabbath, thechurches are well attended, and the schools are lib-erally patronized. Jt is one of the most attrac-tive towns on the line of the Union Pacificroad, and offers many advantages to those whodesire, for any reas(m, a change of location. In addition to other public institutions else-. EARLV MORNING SCENE ern towns in the early days of their same class of human beings that had popu-lated and depopulated North Platte, Julesburg,Cheyenne, and other places, lived and flourishedhere until the next move was made. They weregamblers, thiev^es, prostitutes, murderers—badmen and women of every calling and descriptionunder the heavens, and from almost every nation-ality on the globe—and when they could preyup^n 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 escat>e the conse-quences of crimes committed there, and eachman was a law unto himself. Armed to the veryteiith, it was simply a wo
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