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Across the Plains to Colorado and a Memoir of Missouri Relatives
A Missouri traveler recounts a train journey via Kansas City to Denver and Colorado Springs. He notes floodwaters in Missouri and Kansas, scenery in southern Kansas and Oklahoma, and visits Pueblo and the Pike's Peak region with notes on towns, mines, and local people including Dr G B Chandler and Emree and Jesse Winters. He mentions plans to attend the Republican convention in Denver, then shares a strange Arkansas death-ordeal anecdote and a short musical note about a song. He closes with local news items and notices from Bollinger County including final settlements and tax cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansas City
Wallace
Denver
Kansas
la Junta
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Oklahom
Colorado
Pueblo
Santa Fe
Pike’s Peak
Pike’s
Manitou
South Cheyenne Canon
North Ennon
South Cheyenne
Helen Hunt Jackson
Cheyenne Mountain
Cripple Creek
Gold
Calhan
G. B. Chandler
Marble Hill
Emree
Jesse Winters
A. M. Myers
Glen Allen
R. Q. M. Chandler
William J. Bryan