Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys . ch may justify his start-ing in business with some hope of his beingable to take care of himself and his money,and to pull through. My son had gained experience at my ex-pense, and now I decided that he shouldgain a little more at his own cost. I thoughtit better that he should rough it for himself,and this he had made up his mind to do. LETTER No. III. A hundred and twenty miles walk—Axe, pick-axe, andshovel—A four-hundred-feet roll down the moun-tain—Rough living—An Indi
Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys . ch may justify his start-ing in business with some hope of his beingable to take care of himself and his money,and to pull through. My son had gained experience at my ex-pense, and now I decided that he shouldgain a little more at his own cost. I thoughtit better that he should rough it for himself,and this he had made up his mind to do. LETTER No. III. A hundred and twenty miles walk—Axe, pick-axe, andshovel—A four-hundred-feet roll down the moun-tain—Rough living—An Indian scare—Deadlyfumes—Working round a smelter-—Fishing in LakeAbundance —Disturbed by a grizzly. London^ August^ 1885. PROPOSE now to occupy a fewpages with extracts from Franksletters, which will give a fairnotion of his progress up to the time of my sailing, and from that point I purpose to give you an account of my own adventures. In his next letter, which is dated Cooks City, July 6, 1883, he says :— ** I started out from Minnesota, as there was nothingfor me to do there that would pay me so well. MY HOLIDAY IN THE ROCKIES. 17 We walked from Bozeman, 120 miles through theRockies, with a promise of work, but the roads andcreeks, or rather mountain torrents, which we had tocross are so bad at present that the smeker cannot begot up here yet, and so we are employing ourselves inbuilding a log cabin for the winter for ourselves. Thetrouble is that winter will soon be here . . and asI paid all expenses as well as my own, besideslending him 100 dollars, I am afraid I shall not havemuch left. , . We are now 120 miles from the near-est neighbourhood, right in the heart of the Rockies,so that letters are scarce and far between. FromBozeman (where Mrs. Blackmore was buried) thecarrier comes once a week, but in winter, I suppose,once a fortnight. ** The scenery here is magnificent; we are now in agulch, with a range of mountains on each side of us ;a small camp co
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