loaded on flat freight cars, and taken to the next terminus completely
deserting the former town, Julesburg was rightfully named "The
Portable Hell of the Plains." My finer feelings cannot, if words
could, attempt a description. Suffice to say that during the three
days we were there four men and women were buried in their street
costumes. The fourth day we boarded a Union Pacific train and were
whirled to its Eastern terminus, Omaha, thence home, arriving safely
after an absence of four years.

The habits formed during those western years were hard to change, and
the fight of my life to live a semblance of the proper life, required
a will power as irresistible as the crystal quartz taken from the
lofty snow capped mountain sides, taking tons of weight to crush it,
that the good might be separated from the worthless.

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Transcriber's Notes

Original spelling has been preserved. Some illustrations have been
moved to avoid breaking up the text. The following typos have been
corrected:

Contents: Markmanship changed to Marksmanship:
(Chapter V--A Proof of Markmanship)

Page 12: Holliday changed to Holiday:
(We at once called at the Ben Holliday Stage Office).

Page 104: ther changed to their:
(had ther tribal laws and customs).

Page 106: added closing quotes:
(I'll get out of this one in some way.)

Page 128: added comma after Charlie:
("At least, Charlie" said Patrick, "Let's give them a decent).

Page 137: added comma after second Billie:
(loudly, "Billie, Billie" and with outstretched hand walked).

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