. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. S beyond the confines of ci\ili-zation, when, in a stroll some distance from*the train,I discovered a good w^agon tire. Such reckless aban-donment of property was something new to me. I rolledthe val-u a b 1 e. a 1 o n ij ^ for a while, striving vig-orously to reach themoving train with it,but had at last to abandon the effort in despair. Fromabout this time onward, we saw castaway articlesstrewn b\- the roadside one after another in increasingprofusion till we could have taken our choice of thebest of wagons en
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. S beyond the confines of ci\ili-zation, when, in a stroll some distance from*the train,I discovered a good w^agon tire. Such reckless aban-donment of property was something new to me. I rolledthe val-u a b 1 e. a 1 o n ij ^ for a while, striving vig-orously to reach themoving train with it,but had at last to abandon the effort in despair. Fromabout this time onward, we saw castaway articlesstrewn b\- the roadside one after another in increasingprofusion till we could have taken our choice of thebest of wagons entire wnth much of their lading, hadwe been provided with the extra teams to draw of the draft animals perished, some stampeded,and all became more or less jaded and foot-worn. Onetrain, from Columbus, Ohio, lost every animal it hadthrough that inexplicable fright known as the means for transportation became inade-quate thus early on the journey, and were ever} daybecoming more and more reduced. Many of the em-igrants had provided enough supplies to last thein ayear or two; but they were not long in seeing the pro-
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