. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . us wild turkey; and a merry party, one frosty morning inJanuary of 1873, rattled out of Sedalia. Both artist and writer were fascinatedwith this perfection of travel, this journeying sothoroughly at ones own will, with power to stopat every turn, and with no feeling of haste. Thepresiding genii of the train, the Pet Conductorand Charlie, made
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . us wild turkey; and a merry party, one frosty morning inJanuary of 1873, rattled out of Sedalia. Both artist and writer were fascinatedwith this perfection of travel, this journeying sothoroughly at ones own will, with power to stopat every turn, and with no feeling of haste. Thepresiding genii of the train, the Pet Conductorand Charlie, made the travel through thewilds as comfortable as the journey of an em-peror. Wherever it seemed to us good, we dis-missed our train to a side track, and wandered Missouri towns in this section were passedover with a cursory glance, as being so muchalike in general character. Windsor was a sleepyplace; Calhoun sleepier and older. The latter Chariie. village was a cluster of ill-looking buildings, grouped around a muddy square,the time we saw it, there was also snow enough to make it uncomfortable,ought to see it Sundays, said an informant at the depot, when them fellowsget full of tangle-foot. They kin just fight! But the railroad is bringing. AtYer OF C SMALL I O W N S IX MISSOURI, 189 Calhoun a better future. A little farther on, we paused before the entrance toa shaft sunk in one of those rich veins of coal which crop out in all this old man, dwarfed and bent, but still vigorous, the very image of a gnome,conducted us into the narrow galleries, a hundred and fifty feet below thesurface, where we crawled on our hands and knees along passages scarcelythree feet high, examining the superb strata into which the railway companydelves for fuel. A railway built over a coal-bed gives its corporation no causefor complaint, although, far as the eye can reach, on either hand, there may bescarcely a stick of timber to be seen. The men and women in these small Missouri to
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