238 JULESBERd. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Account of Julesberg. A specimen of the manners of Julesberg. Our 

 lodgings. Seeing the town. Its inhabitants. Gambling-saloons. 

 We start for Sheyenne. Description of hotel accommodation. A 

 citizen shot by an officer. Start for Elk Mountain. Reach Willow 

 Springs. All Houston. Camp at AVillow Springs. Woodchoppers, 

 bad characters. Story about Houston. Obliged to hunt singly. We 

 go together to hunt. A deserted hut and grave of occupant. A visitor. 

 Polly's behaviour. F starts for Sheyenne. Snowed in. Vil- 

 lainous-looking visitors. They are induced to go. Precautions. F 's 



return. I return to Sheyenne. F goes to Virginia Dale. 



FROM Memphis F and I took the steamer for Omaha, by 



way of St. Louis a long journey of nearly sixteen hundred 

 miles and thence we went by the Central Pacific Railway to 

 Julesberg, which was then the temporary terminus of the rail- 

 way. Julesberg was a most extraordinary place. In a few 

 months it had grown out of nothing, and on a bare prairie, to 

 be a town of three thousand inhabitants, most of whom were 

 the offscourings of the western cities. Two houses out of 

 every three were either saloons and gambling-dens or dance- 

 houses, while the remainder were shops. There was no hotel 

 at the time I am speaking of, and when we got out of the 



