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all hailed from Davenport, Iowa. The young man
was buried 011 Monday. Having remained at
Elk-liorn till Tuesday morning, we left this place with
sadness and sympathy for the brother who must now
continue his journey alone.
We were now twenty miles from Fremont, our
next camping place. There were few inhabitants
in Fremont then, and it was the last white settlement
west. Beyond that was the red man’s domain. The
Indians were at peace with the whites at that time
and gave us no trouble whatever. For several days
from nowr on we would meet parties returning to
their homes. Some of them claimed they had been
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clear through the Pike’s Peak district and that it
was nothing more nor less than a humbug and that
there was nothing to it. They said they did not
want to stop there for fear of starving to death.
Some of them camped on homesteads 011 their return
and improved them, intending to make their future
home in this locality. Doubtless they did better
than we and the rest, who heeded not their advice,
but continued on our quest for gold.
Following the north side of the Platte River 011
the good, well-worn California road, we could see
caravans of covered wagons ahead of us as well as
back of ns. Looking northward towards the high
lands and bluffs we very often saw herds of buffalo
feeding along the side of the hills. It was awful to
see how this the grandest of game was misused.
DC course we made use of »some of it for food, but
the great bulk went to waste and a great many
animals were killed merely for sport and left, for
the wolves and coyotes to feed on.
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