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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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trappers eat the flesh, declar-ing it to be fatter and better than that of thesquirrel. If the meat is exposed for a night ortwo to the frost, all rankness will be corrected.In the same hole are found rattlesnakes, thewhite burrowing owl, tortoises and horned frogs,the owl often gratifying his appetite by break-ing open the skull of a young dog, with a smartstroke of his beak. Hiff, the Late Cattle King of the Plains, Had a range 150 miles long, a herd of 26,000head, and was called the Great Cattle King of theplains, and had the boss ranche of this westerncountry. This ranche is in northern Colorado. Itbegins at Julesburg, on the Union Pacific Rail-road, and extends to Greeley, 156 miles west. Itssouthern boundary is the South Platte River; itsnorthern, the divide, rocky and blufpy, just southof the Lodge Pole Creek. It has nearly the shapeof a right-angled triangle, the right angle beingat Greeley, the base line being tlie South PlatteRiver. The streams flowing through it are, first.
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54 TME ^^€IFW TQWMIBW. the river just named, Crow Creek, and othersmall creeks and streams which take their risein living springs, in and near the bluffs of thedivide mentioned, and flow in a southerly direc-tion into the bouth Platte River. It includesbottom and upland ranges, and has severalcamps or ranches. The chief ranche is nearlysouth of Sidney, and about forty miles fromJulesburg. At this ranche there are houses,sheds, stables, and corrals, and more than twosections of land fenced in. All the cattlebought by the late Mr. Iliff were rebrandedand turned over to him at this place. Hereare the private stock yards, with corrals, chutes,pens and all necessary conveniences for handlingcattle. It is near the river, and of course hasfine watering facilities, while from the adjoin-ing bottom lands plenty of hay may be cutfor the use of the horses employed in herd-ing. He cut no hay for his cattle; they livethe entire year on the rich native grasses onthe range, and with the exception

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