. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . to behold. They have asuperstitious reverence for these Hills, and be-lieve them to be the home of the Great treaty only gives them the right to hunt inWyoming, as far west as the crests of the BigHorn Mountains, whenever there is sufficientgame to warrant the chase. With the exceptionof this proviso, therefore, the whole tei-ritory ofW
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . to behold. They have asuperstitious reverence for these Hills, and be-lieve them to be the home of the Great treaty only gives them the right to hunt inWyoming, as far west as the crests of the BigHorn Mountains, whenever there is sufficientgame to warrant the chase. With the exceptionof this proviso, therefore, the whole tei-ritory ofWyoming is open to exploration, settlement anddevelopment. The next question is,—Will thegovernment protect the pioneers in their explora-tions ? or mustthey protectthemselves in go-ing where theyhave an undoubt-ed right to go? The BlackHills are mainlyconfined to a re-gion of territorylying betweenthe forks of theCheyenne addition tothe gulch andplacer diggings,already discov-ered, there havebeen a few dis-coveries of whatappears to berich quartz lodesof gold and veinsof silver. Thisregion is aboutone hundredmiles long andeighty mileswide. FrenchCreek, SpringCreek, RapidCreek, Box-elderCreek,Elk Creekand others headin these Hills,. and flow mainlyin an eastern direction, emptying into the southfork of the Cheyenne. The north fork seems tohug the hills pretty closely with small creeksand streams, yet unexplored, heading in themountains and flowing into it. The north forkheads in Pumpkin Butte, a mountain a littlenorth-west of Fort Fetterman, on the NorthPlatte river. West of the northern portion ofthe Black Hills, there are several ranges of moun-tains and several streams which flow north intothe Yellowstone River. All accounts of this re-gion of country, as far west as the Big HornMountains, unite in the report of its rich min- AGNES PARK.—BLACK HILLS eral character, and we believe the richest min-eral discoveries ever known on this continentwill be made here in th
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