. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . f the word, who retained their good breeding even amid those soli-tudes of the savage and the rude elements that formed the civilizationof a wild frontier town. I shall always remember my ride upon the stage-coach betweenJulesburg and Denver, not alone because of the excitement attendantupon an expected brush with the Indians, but because of its freshand invigorating experience, the long, wild sw
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . f the word, who retained their good breeding even amid those soli-tudes of the savage and the rude elements that formed the civilizationof a wild frontier town. I shall always remember my ride upon the stage-coach betweenJulesburg and Denver, not alone because of the excitement attendantupon an expected brush with the Indians, but because of its freshand invigorating experience, the long, wild swing of the coach uponthe road, the bracing atmosphere of the early autumn month that sentthe blood through our veins with life and health, and that indescriba-ble state of buoyant feeling that always attends the first experience ofan adventurous career. I found the driver of our coach to be a gentleman full of experi-ence of this wild life upon the border, and willing to relate its excitingscenes and incidents. And thus between the watch for Indian signsand the blood-curdling tales of the driver, who by the way wasno Munchausen, but a veritable Indian fighter, having but the year « ~^ VJ^k *v. 167 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 169 before lost a part of his right ear and several fingers from the shot ofa savage foe, the first day wore away without a single adventure ofa startling character. About three oclock in the afternoon of the second day Indiansigns became plentiful to the experienced eye, and just as we reacheda home station, they were reported by the station hands to be inconsiderable force all around us. The horses were coralled in a shorttime, and the coaches so arranged as to afford us a partial shelter fromtheir fire. We all took the position assigned us, and in as brave a frameof mind as our total ignorance of Indian warfare would permit, awaitedthe attack of the savages, some of whom could be seen in the far dis-tance engaged in the Indian pastime of circling1
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