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Title: Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Crofutt, George A
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The Overland Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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earch of gold—the Govern-ment attempted to prevent their trespassing,and to keep faith with the Indians andGen. Sheridan issued his orders againstthis invasion, and sent soldiers to arrestall parties in the Hills, and preventothers from going to them. Finally, theGovernment winked at emigrationwhich it could not, or would not prevent.What see we now ? The white man hastaken the Indians country, that our Gov-ernment has acknowledged belonged to thelatter, has driven the Indians out, beggarsas they are, with only the bread that theGovernment chooses to toss to them. Weare no * Indian lover, but, if the Govern-ment had a right to build these posts, theyshould never have abandoned them; havingabandoned them, and treated with theIndian, as an equal, where is our boasted civilization,* when, though the lands docontain gold, we take them without a thank you, as the elephant would crusha toad. Does might make right f Black Hills Gold Mines—For manyyears vague reports have been in circula-
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AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 49 tion — see our Guide for1869—of rich gold depositsin the Black Hills andBig Horn country, but,until Gen. Custer, with amilitary expedition, pene-trated to, and explored theregion about Harneys Peakin 1874, and reported goldabundant, the soil rich,the country well timbered,and most desirable, nothingdefinite was known. In1875 the gold-seekers begantheir travels to the- Hills,in 1876 the numbers weregreatly increased, but in1877 the great rush wasat its height. These peo-ple have laid out cities,towns, and villages; en-gaged in mining, merchan-dising, farming, and otheroccupations. The principalwealth of the region is inthe quartz rock, which re-quires capital to work toadvantage. Some of thesequartz mines are authori-tatively reported to be ex-ceedingly rich, and at thetime we write—March 6,1879—there are 942 stampsthundering away, night andday reducing the ores, andyielding rich returns,which we have the bestauthority for stating,amounted to over $3

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