A REMINISCENCE OF THE ROCKIES 



tion of facts. Every time I have visited the 

 West I have noticed the rapid progress of 

 change. 



During my first hunting experience, I 

 noticed that the typical bad man, of whom I 

 had heard so much, with his rough-and-ready 

 manner, accoutred with dangerous weapons, 

 his social position established by the size of 

 his private graveyard, was wanting. The 

 facetious desperado, who had a pleasant way 

 of requesting the "tenderfoot" to dance while 

 he marked time with his six-shooter, was "non 

 est." An unappreciative community had or- 

 ganized from time to time a few "necktie 

 parties," and the experience of such gentle- 

 men has since become an interesting theme 

 for romance. The large settled communities 

 of course had the same cosmopolitan air and 

 character that one finds in the East. There 

 was, nevertheless, something in the social 

 atmosphere which impressed you with the 

 feeling that everything was very different. 

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