Mountain Park Boarders and a Hidden Homeland Plot
The narrator contemplates hiring four Englishmen who wish to board while hunting in his Colorado park. He suspects the visitors are Alonzo’s agents seeking Lillian, while pondering family losses, a future hotel idea, and dangers from a wealthy, scheming rival. The tale hints at a Ward-like struggle between good and evil.
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Justinian
Rettlesnake Park
Lucy
Jarvis
Colorado
Alonzo
Lillian
Devil
Love
Kansas Pacific Railroad
Boston
Father
From Florida to Colorado in August
From the tropical sea shore to the snowy mountains the journey spans Florida to Colorado in August. The piece captures travel across diverse landscapes during late summer.
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Snowy Mountains
Female Extravaganters and the Colorado Colony Tale
The piece rails at female extravagance while describing Meeker’s Union Colony at Greeley Colorado. It extols irrigation aided farming, rapid town growth, a local newspaper and rail links fueling settlement, with praise for irrigation discipline and tree planting for a lasting prairie community.
Pray ing nuisance harms many trades and jobs in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati paper warns that the praying nuisance damages farmers by lowering grain sales, ice dealers by forcing underpriced stock, cigar dealers through saloon demand, hardware dealers supplying brewers and ice men, and cooper and many workers whose livelihoods depend on spirit trade. It questions whether women should bear bread for all these losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Nettleton Questions Great Trans Missouri Canal Feasibility
In Out West Mr. Nettleton argues Colorado water equals about 2 000 000 acres and, from civil engineering and practical observer views, deems a large Trans Missouri Irrigation Canal impractical and undesirable. He says farmers should keep grain fields near the mountains where water and mountain consumers reside.
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Mr. Nettleton
Out West
Colorado
Nettleton
Trans Missouri
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Justice of the Peace and Conveyancer
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Madison &St
Ain
Walnut
Percival
Walnut and
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Mac Smitis
Florida
California
Solon Robinson
Greeley Tribune
Meeker
Greeley
Union Colony
Omaha
Julesburg
Union Pacific
Platte
Cheyenne
Cache-a-la-Poudre
Snowy Range
United States
Cache la Poudre
the Tribune
Coloorado
Mill Canal
Ralph
Elliott
Kansas Pacific
Kansas
Mississippi
Yfoneer Saddle and Harness Shop
N._B
R. E. Hart
OLD Colony
Main St
R. Burchile
Walnut Street
J. Joyce
Maple Street
Fay H. Boughton
Fort Collin
Fort Collings
Restoc
Parms
Larimer County
A. W. Fisk
A and Real Estate
James CC. Scott
Main Street
Spruce Street
Samuel Graham
Marsh, M.D
Mota Street
Jefferson
Madison
J. M. Freeman
Oscar Eaton
Omece
U. S. Land Offices
Pabor & Allen
EAL Estate & Fire Insurance Agency
Denver Pacific Railway
Gache la Poudre Valley
Madison and
Jefferson Sts
George Pyburn
Monroe Street
Finman
Wires Stein
Kalsemining, &c
Majle Street
Tribune
Sahateataadi
Maple and
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A. Ingallee
the Bank, Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
A. Leavy
Plorist
Grant and
Sherman Sts
EO. Pyburn, C.E
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