Identifier: pacifictourist1877will (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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and trappers eat the flesh, declar-ing it to be fatter and better than that of thesquirrel. If the meat is exposed for a night ortwo to the frost, all rankness will be corrected.In the same hole are found rattlesnakes, thewhite burrowing owl, tortoises and horned frogs,the owl often gratifying his appetite by break-ing open the skull of a young dog, with a smartstroke of his beak. II iff, the Cattle King of the Plains, Has a range 1.50 miles long, a herd of 26,000head, and is called the Great Cattle King of theplains, and has the boss ranche of this westerncountry. This ranche is in northern Colorado. Itbegins at Julesburg, on the Union Pacific Rail-road, and extends to Greeley, 156 miles west. Itssouthern boundary is the South Platte River; itsnorthern, the divide, rocky and bluffy, just southof the Lodge Pole Creek. It has neaily the shapeof a right-angled triangle, the right angle beingat Greeley, the base line being the South PlatteRiver. The streams flowing through it are, first.
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54 Wmm ^si€IFI€ TQW^IBW. the river just named, Crow Creek, and othersmall creeks and streams which take their risein living springs, in and near the bluffs of thedivide mentioned, and flow in a southerly direc-tion into the South Platte River. It includesbottom and upland ranges, and has severalcamps or ranches. The chief ranche is nearlysouth of Sidney, and about forty miles from Jules-burg. At this ranche there are houses, sheds, sta-bles, and corrals, and more than two sections ofland fenced in. All the cattle bought by Mr.Iliff are rebranded and turned over to him at thisplace. Here are his private stock yards, withcorrals, chutes, pens and all necessary conveni-ences for handling cattle. It is near the river,and of course has fine wateiing facilities, whilefrom the adjoining bottom lands plenty of haymay be cut for the use of the hoi-ses employed inherding. He cuts no hay for his cattle; theylive the entire year on the rich native gi-asses onhis range, and with the exception

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