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' I hope that we have done with the Indians now. 

 They are going to have a big fight in Arizona, but 

 as we are not going there it does not matter to us. 

 I really fear that they will have to be wiped out if 

 they will not settle and be civilised — and they won't ! 

 The world cannot afford to give up enormous tracts 

 of valuable land in order to enable a few bands of 

 wandering savages to live in idleness, but it pays so 

 many private interests to keep them up, at present, 

 that it will be a long time before " little Phil Sheridan " 

 will be permitted to sweep them away. 



' I was much disappointed at the mountain road 

 between this and Cheyenne. Much of it was wild 

 and desolate, some of it — particularly one caiion of 

 rich red conglomerate — fine, but certainly none of it 

 deserving the epithets of grand and magnificent so 

 freely dispensed by Americans. The situation of 

 this place seems fine, but the snow clouds are hanging 

 so low that I can hardly form an opinion ; I hope 

 they will lift before we go. 



' We have not got a single bear, and I am afraid 

 that it is rather too late for them, people say that 

 they are laid up for the winter. There are plenty 

 of them, black, tolerably quiet ; cinnamon, large 

 and rather fierce ; silver gray, small, but very frisky 

 and bold ; old grizzly, the very devil himself, who 

 means to have you when he goes for you. The 

 work and exposure are rather hard sometimes, 

 harder indeed than anything that I have gone 

 through yet, but in spite of that, I am certainly much 



