Excerpt from Dangers of the Trail in 1865: A Narrative of Actual Events I present this narrative of actual events on a trip across the plains to Denver, Colorad

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

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced