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Title: Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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OMABA TO CHEYENNE. 4G0 About July first, the Union Pacific Railroad soldlots for one liundrcd and fifty dollars per lot. Amonth later, they were worth one thousand dollarsapiece, increasing in price at the rate of one thousanddollars per lot each month for some time after. On July 1, 1867, Cheyenne was simply a little cor-ner of the wilderness. On January 1, 18G8, it was a city of six thousandinhabitants. Was it not indeed a ^^ Magic City, which couldfurnish a six months record like the above? However, this was but the Quatre Bras before theWaterloo. Cheyennes real struggle for life, for advancement,for culture and permanent prosperity, was to beginwith this new year of 1868. We know how grandlythe young city conquered, not by magic this time,but better still, by patience, pluck, and indomitablewill. But to her honest and law-abiding citizens, atthe outset of 1868, things looked dark indeed. Cheyenne was the terminus of the Union PacificRailroad that winter, and the scum of the floati

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