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Title: Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Clampitt, John Wesley, 1839-
Subjects: Telegraph Pacific railroads Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Chicago New York Philadelphia San Francisco : Belford, Clarke & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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as road agents, who did not hesitate to murder in the most cowardlyway the unsuspecting traveler, who, perhaps, after years of toil, priva-tion and danger, at length had accumulated a competence, and wasreturning again to his childhood home, and, perhaps, was dreaming ofthe meeting with loved ones, who had awaited his coming through allthese years of absence, at the moment the assassins bullet launchedhim from his day dreams into the land of forms and shadows. I have stood beside a vast boulder, half hidden in the willows,which in some age had loosened its hold and rolled far down from itsrocky heights into one of the wildest of glens and most picturesquespots in southern Idaho, where the stage road winds through Port)STeuf canon, close by a singing stream, whose banks are lined witlidrooping willows and the fiery ash, where all but two of a whole coachload of returning miners were slaughtered by a band of mountain rob-bers, distinguished by the title of road agents. In this wild spot
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OVERLAND MAIL-EXPRESS VRRIVING IS TOWN. ECHOES FROM Till: ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 81 manv ;i miner from Montana, on his way to Salt Lake City or theStairs, was suddenly confronted by these land pirates and made tothrow aphis hands and drop Ins dust, the result of years of toil andprivation. One day in-Inly. 1865, the treasure coach for the southleft Virginia City with seven passengers, N. S. Parker, A. ,1. McCaus-land. David Dinan, W. L. filers, L. F. Carpenter, Charles Parks and,lames Brown, and a large amount of treasure in dust and gold bars.These men were all hardy miners and mountaineers who. with a viewof protecting their hard earned treasure from the attacks of robbers,were armed with double-barreled shot-guns loaded with buckshot.They Eeared an attack upon the coach, and determined to defend itwith their lives. They watched in turn at the coach windows, withguns ready for instant use. with the hope of obtaining the first shot incase of an attack. The drivers name was Frank Williams,

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