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Title: Dangers of the Trail in 1865
A Narrative of Actual Events

Author: Charles E Young

Illustrator: H. DeF. Patterson

Release Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #27077]

Language: English

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DANGERS OF THE TRAIL

IN 1865

A Narrative of Actual Events

By CHARLES E. YOUNG

GENEVA, N. Y.
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912
BY CHARLES E. YOUNG

Press of W. F. Humphrey, Geneva, N. Y.
H. DeF. Patterson, Illustrator, Geneva, N. Y.

PREFACE

I present this narrative of actual events on a trip across the plains
to Denver, Colorado, in 1865 and of life in the Far West in the later
sixties.

An interesting and valuable feature is a map of the country, made in
1865, by Henry Bowles of Boston, showing the old Platte River and
Smoky Hill Trails of that day before there was a railroad west of the
Missouri River.

Everything is told in a plain but truthful manner, and this little
volume is submitted to the reader for approval or criticism.

CHAS. E. YOUNG
July, 1912

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I--Young Man, Go West

CHAPTER II--Arrival at Fort Carney

CHAPTER III--An Attack by the Indians

CHAPTER IV--Denver in 1865

CHAPTER V--A Proof of Marksmanship

CHAPTER VI--On to Leavenworth

CHAPTER VII--A Plucky German

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CHAPTER I

"YOUNG MAN, GO WEST"

[Illustration: E] Early in 1859 gold was discovered in Colorado, and
Horace Greeley, the well known writer and a power throughout the
country both before and during the Civil War, made, in the interest of
the _New York Tribune_, of which he was editor, an overland trip to
Denver by the first stage line run in that day. He started from
Leavenworth, Kansas, and with the exception of Mr. Rich