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Now the soil was sandier; the grass changed yet again They had rolled

under wheel by now rasses The vegetation began to show the growing altitude The cactus

was seen now and then On the far horizon the wavering e appeared, , the

very spirits of the Far West, appearing tofrom the Prairies to the Plains

Shouts and cheers arose as the word passed back that the sand hills

known as the Coasts of the Platte were in sight Soon The whips cracked , quickened their pace as they struck

the down-grade gap leading through the sand ridges

Two thousand Anorant, all of

the with them law, order, society, the church, the

school, aneere staging the great drah upon so platform drawn by

invisible cables beyond the vast proscenium of the hills