THE OVERLAND EOUTE COUNCIL BLUFFS TO OGDEN 



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time 



flaimcl 



skull: 



signposts along the trail. 



Commcr 



loneers 



makinor fifteen miles 



Young.'' 



Briofham 



& 



im 



from 



named 



was 



tlio Indians. The station ^ 

 Holladay's stage line. He 



perado; who fought both for and against law and order atid whose 

 career is set forth in Mark Twain^s ^^ Roughino- it.'' 



Figure 6.— Typical sand dune with blow-out in its top, illustrating the depressions formed by the wind in 



the sand-dune country, where the sand is loose enough to be easily shifted. 



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Just beyond Julesburg the main lino leaves the South Platte Valley 

 and, turning northward up Lodgepole Creek, reenters Nebraska. At 



Weir is a otoud of sand hills 



Lodgepole Creek takes it 



formed 



from 



(See fig. 6.) 



which 



canvas to form their tents' or tepees. Very httle timber can be seen 

 now in any part of the valley that is traversed by the Union Pacific. 



llie tram passes several stations and small t( 

 Chappell, Perdu, Lodgepole, Sunol, and Colton 

 and Sidney. 



lis— Weir, Ralton, 

 between Julesburg 



^ These blow-outs, some of which occur 

 in the tops of the hills like craters ia a vol- 

 cano, are produced by the mud wherever 



home for his family or by a coyote digging 

 out a gopher for his breakfast. The wind 

 blows out the loose sand, the sides of the 



it getd a chance to lift the sand. The i hole cave in and make more loose sand to 



exposed 



favorable places. The protecting cover 



of growing vegetation becomes broken, 



be blown out, and this process goes on 

 until the blow-out is so deep that the 

 wind can no lonsrer lift the sand over its 



perlwps by a badger burrowing out a j rim. 



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Bull. 612—15 



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