Identifier: rockymountainlif00sagerich (find matches)
Title: Rocky Mountain life; or, Startling scenes and perilous adventures in the far West, during an expedition of three years
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
Subjects: Hunting -- United States Rocky Mountains West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Wentworth and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ccessful termination. Independence is the seat of justice for Jackson county. Mo., about fourhundred miles west by north of St. Louis, and contains a population ofnearly two thousand. Westport is a small town in the same county, nearthe mouth of the Kansas river,—three miles from the Indian territory, andthirty below the U. S. Dragoon station at Fort Leavenworth. The regularroutes to Santa Fe and Oregon date their commencement at these places.The country in this vicinity is beginning to be generally settled by thriftyfarmers, from whom all the articles necessary for travellers and traders, maybe procured upon reasonable terms. Starting from either of the above points, a short ride bears the adventureracross the state line, and aflbrds him the opportunity of taking his ini-tiatory les&ons amid the realities of prairie life. Here, most of the tradingand emigrant companies remain encamped for several weeks, to recruit > 1« 1 > J ■> 111) (c c t f ( e r<■ I ( c r f c
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King of xjie Siiawnees. — Parrc 33. BORDER-PRAIRIES AND INDIANS. 33 their animals and complete the needful arrangements, prior to undertakingthe toilsome and dangerous journey before them. The scenery of tiiis neighborhood is truly delightful. It seems indeedlike one Natures favored spots, where ilora presides in all her regalsplendor, and with the Iragrance of wild flowers, perfumes the breath ofspring and lades tlie summer breeze with willing incense ;—now, sport-ing beside her fountains and revelling in her dales,—then, smiling fromher hill-tops, or luxurating beneath her groves. I shall never forget the pleasing sensations produced by my first visit tothe border-prairies. It was in the month of June, soon after my arrival atWestport, The day was clear and beautiful. A gentle shower the pre-ceding night had purified the atmosphere, and the laughing flowerets, newlyinvigorated from the nectarine draught, seemed to vie with each other inthe exhalation of their sweetest odors. T

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