. 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 . s within the coach. Theladies did not seem to mind Avhat, in other lands and under othercircumstances, Avould have been an insult. As one of them afterwardinformed us, she appreciated and sympathized with the tendernessexhibited by the rough men of the frontier as they stood withouta word and gazed upon their features; and she said to her cousin : Do, Mollie, uncover your face, and let those poor
. 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 . s within the coach. Theladies did not seem to mind Avhat, in other lands and under othercircumstances, Avould have been an insult. As one of them afterwardinformed us, she appreciated and sympathized with the tendernessexhibited by the rough men of the frontier as they stood withouta word and gazed upon their features; and she said to her cousin : Do, Mollie, uncover your face, and let those poor fellows lookat you, perhaps they have not seen a woman for years. And Mollie uncovered and let the poor fellows look at hermore than beautiful face. God bless her! Alas, poor fellows! Poor, lonely frontiersmen. How longhad it been since your gaze had feasted upon such a sight? Whata world of beauty opened up to your mortal vision in those fewfleeting moments ! What were goods and chattels, barter and sale,trade and exchange, beside the glow of womanly beauty that hadstolen unawares for a transitory moment within the shadow of your-monotonous lives? It was like the sudden flash of a sunbeam in. g £ 209 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 211 the darkness of clouds, and as refreshing as the dew and rain tothe wilted blossom. # As the coach rolled away we gazed backward with a partingglance, and beheld these two sons of the desert, these avant couriers ofcivilization, these men of the wilderness, used to sudden dangerand the storm of Indian violence, these pioneers, who, in theirloneliness, were among the first to carve the paths of empire on adistant meridian, still standing in a dazed condition, looking at thevacancy of air, where but a moment before a vision of beautyenraptured their gaze and enthralled their souls. Call it weakness inmen, if you will, but let the battle-fields of earth speak! It iswomans province to enslave. Her smiles and tears have changed themaps of the worl
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