. The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest . ykeen by the brisk ride in the dry, pure air. These Eaton boys,whose hospitality we had so agreeably tested, are from theEast, and they have money enough invested in sheep and
. The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest . ykeen by the brisk ride in the dry, pure air. These Eaton boys,whose hospitality we had so agreeably tested, are from theEast, and they have money enough invested in sheep andcattle to carry on a very respectable wholesale business in anylarge city of the Union. Having enjoyed their hospitality aslong as our time would admit, we left their shack,which isthe common name for a substantial log house, re-enforced byone of these happy ranchmen,—a young chap who sat hishorse as though he were a centaur, and looked a picturesqueand noble figure, with his clean shaven cheeks, heavy droop-ing mustache, sombrero, blue shirt and neckerchief with flam-ing ends; in fine, a perfect specimen of the noble manhoodfinish which this breezy, bounding Western life often gives ina few years to the Eastern born and bred young man. Aftervisiting a coal vein which has been smoldering constantlyever since the country was known to the whites, ani fromtime immemorial, according to Indian tradition, the fire of. 176 Missouri Division. 177 which is visible at nii;ht from the train, \vc inspected theMaiden of the Park, the ^Watchdog, and others of thebuttes which bear more or less resemblance to the thingsafter which their sponsors named them. We also chippedoff specimens of petrified wood, full of sparkling, siliciouscrystals, from the mammoth tree trunks turned to stone,which crop out from the sides of the conglomerate mounds,showing that, in ages long remote, a stately forest grew onthese grassy plains. Prof. N. H. Winchell, of Minnesota, who accompanied as geolog
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