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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Shearer, Frederick E Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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sas Val-leys, and where a few years since, travelers couldsee countless thousands of them from the carwindows and platforms, on either the UnionPacific, Kansas Pacific or Atchison, Topeka &Santa Fe Railroads, they now, probably will seebut few, if any. Their hides have been shippedEast, where they make a poor quality of leather.Those only which are taken late in the fall andduring the winter months of January and Febru-ary, are fit for robes. The hair at this season ofthe year, is thick and firmly set. About the time this killing process began in1870, Mr. Clother entered upon the work of tan-ning robes, employing for this purpose the squawsof the Pawnee and Omaha tribes. The Pawneereservation was only a short distance from Co-lumbus, and the Bucks were glad of theopportunity of employment for their squaws.Labor is beneath their dignity, and they despise it.Besides this, tanning robes is hard and slow work,and in their opinion, just fit for squaws. For a 28 TWE ^m€iFl€ TQW^iBW,
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>^X^ few years the squaws of both of the tribes named,have been engaged by Mr. Clother, but the de-parture of the Pawnees to their reservation inthe Indian Territory, prechided the possibility oftheir employment, and hence in the winter of1876, the Omahas seem to have a monopoly of thework, though there is not as much to do as for-merly. We visited their camp to inspect the proc-ess of making robes. It was located in a bodyof heavy timber, with a thick growth of under-brush, on the narrow point of land where theLoup Fork and Platte Rivers form their junction.The low bushes made a perfect wind-break, andin the midst of the tall trees their Sibley tentswere pitched. The barking of numerous dogsgreeted our approach, and after making a fewinquiries of one or two who could talk broken English, we crawled into the tent occupied bythe Bucks, whom we found intensely interestedin gambling—playing a game with cards called 21. In this tent were nine Bucks and onesquaw; three sat stolidly by

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