One End, Almost
Dark, Contains The Cooking-Stove, Milk, Crockery, A Long Deal
Table, Two Benches, And Some Wooden Stools; The Other End Houses
The English Manager Or Partner, His Wife, And Three Children,
Another Cooking-Stove, Gear Of All Kinds, And Sacks Of Beans And
Flour.
They put up a sheet for a partition, and made me a
shake-down on the gravel floor of this room.
Ten hired men sat
down to meals with us. It was all very rough, dark, and
comfortless, but Mr. T., who is not only a gentleman by birth,
but an M.A. of Cambridge, seems to like it. Much in this way (a
little smoother if a lady is in the case) every man must begin
life here. Seven large dogs - three of them with cats upon their
backs - are usually warming themselves at the fire.
TWIN ROCK, SOUTH FORK OF THE PLATTE, November 1.
I did not leave Mr. Thornton's till ten, because of the
slipperiness. I rode four miles along a back trail, and then was
so tired that I stayed for two hours at a ranch, where I heard,
to my dismay, that I must ride twenty-four miles farther before I
could find any place to sleep at. I did not enjoy yesterday's
ride. I was both tired and rheumatic, and Birdie was not so
sprightly as usual. After starting again I came on a hideous
place, of which I had not heard before, Hayden's Divide, one of
the great back-bones of the region, a weary expanse of deep snow
eleven miles across, and fearfully lonely.
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