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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of our greatest calamity in the loss of our men. In six daysafter leaving my camp in the mountains, I overtook his party, they MARVELS OF ENTERPRISE. 22 havingdeath. been out twenty-two clays, and King having been starved toIn four days afterwards I reached the settlements in time to save many, buttoo late to rescue allthe men. His dia- ry, at one time, con-tained the following: The meat train didnot arrive this even-ing, and I gaveGodey leave to killour little dog (Ka-math), which he pre-pared in Indian fash-ion,— scorching offhe hair, and wash-ing the skin withsoap and snow, andthen cutting it upinto pieces whichwere laid on thesnow. We had to-night an extraordi-nary dinner — pea-soup, mule, and dog.These sufferingsand perils were en-dured to find a pas-sage for civilizationacross the NewWest to the PacificSlope, where nowpleasure-parties ridein Pullman cars;and where, withinthirty years, some ofthe thriftiest citiesof the world haverisen like magicupon Indian hunt-ing grounds.
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RAISING THE FLAG. 224 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. It was Fremont who planted the American flag, less than fiftyyears ago, upon what was then supposed to be the highest peak ofthe Rocky Mountains, where now the tide of commerce rolls. Fre-mont thus describes the place from which he ascended the peak,which he called Snow Peak, because its summit bore a burden ofsnow under a bright August sun. We soon had the satisfactionto find ourselves riding along the huge wall which forms the centralsummit of the chain. There at last it rose by our sides, a nearlyperpendicular wall of granite, terminating two thousand to threethousand feet above our heads, in a serrated line of broken, jaggedcones. We rode on until we came almost immediately below themain peak. Here were three small lakes of a green color, each ofperhaps a thousand yards in diameter, and apparently very deep.He described his climbing the peak as follows : — Having divested ourselves of every unnecessary encumbrance,we commenced the a

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