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Folded their tents like the Arabs, And silently stole away.
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whiskey, warranted to kill a mile away. Hay and wood were also kept on hand, for sale to passing trains, and many ranchmen managed thus to pick up considerable money in the course of the year. Generally two men occupied a ranch thus together, though sometimes squaws were found serving as
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-wives. Much of their time was spent, especially at night, in playing
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etc. for the want of something else to do; and a newspaper, a Congressional speech, or even a Pub. Doc., was always welcome. Farther west, the stage-stations and ranch-huts were built more substantially, and often were regularly bastioned and loop-holed for a siege. One of the most notable of these was Fort Wicked, about half-way between Julesburg and Denver. It was built of sods and adobe, with a thick wall of the same on three sides, and was really an arrow and bullet-proof block-house. A year or so before, it had been attacked by a party of Cheyennes and Arrapahoes; but the owner and his men showed fight--killed several of the red-skins, and put the rest to flight--whereupon some one christened the place
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Fort Wicked,
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River, as the Missouri was always called, these trains being loaded all had their full complement of wagon-masters, teamsters, cooks, etc. But, returning empty, several wagons were often coupled together--the surplus employees stopping over in the mines. By day, these trains stretched their huge length along, the great white-sheeted wagons or
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carrying each from ten to twelve thousand pounds; but, at night, their wagons were formed into a
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with the animals inside to prevent the Indians stampeding them, and the picturesque effect of such encampments was always pleasing. Even here on the Plains, about the last place we would suppose, the inherent aristocracy of human nature cropped out distinctly. The lords of the lash _par excellence_ were the stage-drivers. The next most important, the horse or mule teamsters; and the lowest, the