Category: Travel Writing
IT is somewhat disturbing to one who visits the West for the first time with the purpose of writing of it, to read on the back of a railroad map, before he reaches Harrisburg, that Texas “is one hundred thousand square miles larger than all the Eastern and Middle States, inclu...
IT is somewhat disturbing to one who visits the West for the first time with the purpose of writing of it, to read on the back of a railroad map, before he reaches Harrisburg, t...
2. Part 2San Antonio is the oldest of Texan cities, and possesses historical and picturesque show-places which in any other country but our own would be visited by innumerable American t...
3. Part 3“‘Well,’ says he, ‘when do you think we’re going to catch this ---- ---- ---- ---- Garza? As for me,’ says he, ‘I’m that ---- ---- ---- ---- tired of the whole ---- ---- ---- bu...
4. Part 4When I first read of Creede, when I was so ignorant concerning it that I pronounced the final _e_, it was on the date line of a newspaper, and made no more impression upon me th...
5. Part 5I met several of these prominent citizens while in Creede, and found them affable. Billy Woods fights, or used to fight, at two hundred and ten pounds, and rejoices in the fact...
6. Part 6It would be interesting to follow the course of this sky-rocket among cities up to the present day, and tell how laws were evolved and courts established, and the complexities o...
7. Part 7Around San Antonio are many ranches. These are more like large farms, and there are high trees and hills and a wonderful variety of flowers. There are also antelope and wild fow...
8. Part 8Anadarko is a town of six stores, three or four frame houses, the Indian agent’s store and office, and the City Hotel. Seven houses in the West make a city. I said I thought thi...
9. Part 9The agents are not the only people who make mistakes. Some friend mailed me a book the other day on Indian reservations, in order that I might avoid writing what has already bee...
10. Part 10Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio is one of the three largest posts in the country, and is in consequence one of the heavens towards which the eyes of the army people turn. It is...
11. Part 11The proportion of young English gentlemen who are roughing it in the West far exceeds that of the young Americans. This is due to the fact that the former have never been taught...