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Show 224 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. "Arriving in Denver, we rented a room over a store. It was the first roof I had slept under for six months. I took a few boarders and Mr. Tabor returned to his prospect, which he found had been jumped by the miner who had advised us to leave. 'Might was right' in those days, so he lost all his summer's work, and had to sell the cow to buy the supply for the new camp which was up the head-waters of the Arkansas. "The 19th of February, 1860, I was lifted from a bed oT sickness to a wagon, and we started for the new mining excitement. No woman had yet been there. "We were seven days going to where Manitou now stands. I made biscuit with the water of the soda springs; they were yellow and tasted so strongly of soda that even we, with our out-door appetites, could not relish them. " We lingered there one week, the men doing a little prospecting, and working on a new road over the Ute Pass. " We made such slow progress over this road that every evening we could look back and see the smoke from the camp-fire of the previous evening. After two weeks of such wearying travel we reached South Park. I shall never forget my first vision of the park. The sun was was just setting. I can only describe it by saying it was one of Colorado's sunsets. Those who have seen them know how glorious they are. Those who have not cannot imagine anything so gorgeously beautiful. The park looked like a cultivated field, with rivulets coursing through, and herds of antelope in the distance. We camped on the bank of a clear stream, and the men went fishing. We had broiled trout that night for supper, and |