. Prairie traveler : a hand-book for overland expeditions, with maps, illustrations, and itineraries of the principal routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific. desperate encounters witlitheir huge horns, which, in striking together, madeloud reports. This will account for the markssometimes seen upon them. The flesh of the big-horn, when fat, is more ten- 252 PRAIRIE TRAVELER. der, juicy, and delicious than that of any other an-imal I know of, but it is a hon houche which willnot grace the tables of our city epicures until a rail-road to the Rocky Mountains affords the means oftransporti
. Prairie traveler : a hand-book for overland expeditions, with maps, illustrations, and itineraries of the principal routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific. desperate encounters witlitheir huge horns, which, in striking together, madeloud reports. This will account for the markssometimes seen upon them. The flesh of the big-horn, when fat, is more ten- 252 PRAIRIE TRAVELER. der, juicy, and delicious than that of any other an-imal I know of, but it is a hon houche which willnot grace the tables of our city epicures until a rail-road to the Rocky Mountains affords the means oftransporting it to a market a thousand miles dis-tant from its haunts. In its habits the mountain sheep greatly resem-bles the chamois of Switzerland, and it is hunted inthe same manner. The hunter traverses the mostinaccessible and broken locaHties, moving alongwith great caution, as the least unusual noise causesthem to flit away like a phantom, and they wuU beseen no more. The animal is gregarious, but it isseldom that more than eight or ten are found in aflock. When not grazing they seek the shelteredsides of the mountains, and repose among the rocks. ITINERARIES,. a5 u atn -a 0 a3a o1^ F-i > CO 1:9 s CD ?a o3 a a 3 aa o g?3 a so 53 oS3a) « a t3 LIST OF ITIXEPvARlES: flBOWtSO THE I«STA>CES BETWEEN CAlCPtNG-PLACES, THE CRXSjiCTTZ , WiTES, AXD6BAS6 OK THE PELSCtPAl- SfXTTSS BETWTEX THE ICSSlSSCFn EITEB AXDTHE rACXnC OCEJLS. Xa Pa^ L PVom Fort Smith. Arkansas, to Santa Fe and Albnqnerqoe, New Meijca By Captain R. R Marcr. U. S. A. 257 n. From Fort Leavenirorth to Santa Fe, by the tray of the npper ferry of the Kan?j>.« Kver and the Cimarron 2^ IIL Cainping-]daees npoa a road discovered and marked ont fromFort Smith, Arkansas, to Dona and El Paso, \ew Mex- ko, in 1549. By Captain E. a Marty, U. Sl A. 263 IV. From Leavemrorth City to Great Salt Lake City 366 Y. From Salt Lake City to Sacramento and Benicia, 273 VL From Great Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and
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