New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . CATTLE GOING TO WATER. ing of riding out again before night, with his letters and a few purchasednecessaries in his saddle-bags. It is very pleasant, without doubt, tolounge in the old fort at St. Augustine, or to frequent Nice, and Cannes, 48 NEW COLORADO AND THE SANTA FE TRAIL. and Pan. Init it is more cHicacitms, and far more manly, to slum deliii:;lits,and live laborious days, and to be doing yeomans work and gaininghealth at the same time. These were our cogitations as wc sat in the evenings in front of thehouse, drinking in what our host happily call
New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . CATTLE GOING TO WATER. ing of riding out again before night, with his letters and a few purchasednecessaries in his saddle-bags. It is very pleasant, without doubt, tolounge in the old fort at St. Augustine, or to frequent Nice, and Cannes, 48 NEW COLORADO AND THE SANTA FE TRAIL. and Pan. Init it is more cHicacitms, and far more manly, to slum deliii:;lits,and live laborious days, and to be doing yeomans work and gaininghealth at the same time. These were our cogitations as wc sat in the evenings in front of thehouse, drinking in what our host happily called ozone, and waiting forthe mail, which came semi-occasionally from Pueblo in a bag hung to the. THRKE DAYS LATER FROM PUEBLO. saddle of a small boy mounted on a tall horse—a primitive fashion, nodoubt, but endurable for the last twenty miles, since our welcome letterscame the preceding two thousand in fast express trains. But all pleasant things must come to an end, and after breakfast onemorning the large wagon came to the door, and we drove out through thegate, and past the end of the bluff, and over the rolling plain, dampenedby the welcome rain of the night before, in the direction of Pueblo. Itwas a drive to be long remembered, with its accompaniments of a deli-cious and invigorating air, the sight of all the mountains, and glimpsesof the Arkansas flowing to the eastward, miles and miles away. As weneared the town, musing, as one must under such circumstances, on the THE CATTLE RANCHES. 49 days, not long gone bj, of the fierce Indian and tlie roving trapper, acliange came oer the spirit of our dream, for we saw in turn the smokeof a smehing-works, a Oliina washmans shanty
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