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mentioned, taking the cars from Omaha part way 

 across the plains, and then taking stage the balance 

 of the way. 



With my associates, Simonin, Heine, and Geise, we 

 left Paris the latter part of September, 1867, by the 

 French steamer from Havre to New York and on to 

 Omaha. The Union Pacific Railroad was then com- 

 pleted some two hundred miles out on the plains, and 

 from its termination we took stage to Denver. Our 

 passage by the latter method required four days of 

 travel night and day. The railroad was not then dis- 

 patching daily trains, and the semi-weekly one which 

 we occupied was of slow progress on the new road and 

 carried an unusual number of cars, conveying a small 

 body of Mormons for Salt Lake, escorted by an elder of 

 the elect, and several carloads of young western people, 

 going out to occupy lands acquired from the rail- 

 road. 



Colonel Heine was a large man of rather imposing 

 cast, dressed in velvet with leggings, and, carrying 

 with strap over shoulder a large field-glass case, at- 

 tracted considerable attention. Overhearing at one of 

 the eating stations from some of the chattering rustics, 

 fellow-passengers, comments about Colonel Heine, and 

 a suggestion from one of them that it might be Brigham 

 Young, I quietly beckoned him inside and told him in 

 a most confidential manner that he had evidently pene- 

 trated the disguise of the wily Brigham, and that he 

 had best keep it to himself, or at least not give out the 

 discovery beyond his most intimate and reliable friends 

 who could be depended upon. That Mr. Young, pre- 

 suming upon his being little known in the East, had 

 perhaps supposed himself unrecognized in his disguise, 



