Outing (1885) (14741762026) - Public domain book illustration
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Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries
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Cattle owners of the open range.
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THE STORY OF THE OVERLAND MAIL WRITTEN FROM DATA FURNISHED BYR. F. ELWELL ILLUSTRATED BY R. FARRINGTON ELWELL ON the seventeenth of May, 1859,Denver turned out to welcome thefirst through coach of what wasdestined to grow into the Overland Mail,an enterprise which, for sheer Americanpluck and daring, must be forever linkedwith the fame of the Pony Express. Red shirts drifted to the outskirts of thehamlet and dotted^the hills around. Hard-faced bar tenders made ready for the hot-test night that ever fore this camp loose.The artillery of holster and saddle-boot;was unlimbered for an ecstatic fusillade.There was lively betting in dust and nug-gets that the first through stage had beengathered in by Indians, with takers aseager to stake their faith that the scalpsof driver and guard would come throughintact. At length a swirl of dust showed fardown the trail. It grew into a yellowcloud that crept toward the eager hamlet.Then six mules, stretched out on the gallop,emerged from this curtain
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