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Before the brazen sun had fully risen on the second day these late

peaceful farmers of Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, were

plodding along onceout

unaided into a land whichmen in the Government, North and

South, and quite aside from political affiliations, did not value at

five dollars for it all, though still a thousand ate, trudging along beside Molly's

wagon in the sand "Don't you cry fer on,

with arden to the sun-seared eyes of the eer, when its rude stockade separated itself

froe, whose citadels of silence,

painted teiant sphinxes, vast

caryatids, lofty arches, fretwork façades, fantastically splendid

castles and palaces now resolved theroups of squat pole

structures and a rude stock corral

The site of the post itself could not better have been chosen Here the

flattened and dividing waters of the Black's Fork, icy cold and fresh

from the Uintah Mountains to the southward, supported a substantial

growth of trees, green now and wonderfully refreshing to desert-weary

eyes