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Show 90 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. A large spring to the right of the road ; water clear and wholesome, but warm. No camping here, so make your calculation to push on to BITTER COTTON W<)OD CREEK ................. ?·Y. Good water, and grass on west bank of the creek, and on the east side also, half a mile down the stream, among the timber. SPRING CREEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Timber abundf',nt. Some grass. DEAD TIMBER CREEK. . . . . . • • • . . . . .••.......... 4 Excellent camping place. You will now pass one or two small creeks, that if not dry, afford very good camp-ing, or pass on to . RED ROCK SPRINGS. . . . . ......... -. .. • .......... 10 The SRrings lie off the road, down the slope to the right. Here is a high rocky ridge on your left. HORSE SHOE CREEK ........ · .................... 4 On this creek are most delightful camping grounds; wood, water and excellent_ grass in great abundance. A good place to stop and recruit ; and as many do it for a long distance up the creek, there are two roads, from different points here, leading towards the Platte river. We describe the best, we believe. Cross the creek and turn to the right. PLATTE RIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7" RIVER AGAIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................. :. . . 6 Now along the river, then among the Bluffs, and along a high dividing ridge for five or six miles. Here a road from among the Black Hills comes in on your left. You pass on to LABONTE RIVER ................................... 16 ' Good camping; grass and wood abundant. LITTLE LABONTE .....••..•.••... .'. . . . . . . . . • .... 8 This is sometimes 'dry. I NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. 91 RED EARTH CREEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . • . . 3 Fair camping. CAT CREEK........... . .......••........•........ 6~ RIVER A I.. .. A PRELE . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • • . . . • 7 . Good camping. BOX ELDER CREEl{ ...... ~ .......... : .. . ......... 5~ Clear cold water, but little timber or grass. . LITTLE DEER CREEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • • • • . . . . 3 Good camping. Everything plentiful. PLATTE RIVER .......... , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 But little grass or wood. DEER CREEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Excellent place to stop and recruit. For many miles up stream there are fine meadows of excellent grass, abundance of timber, and the creek alive with trout. There is a coal bed in the hills on the east bank of the creek, a short distance above the road. Don't cross the Platte here, but pass up to a point NEAR THE RIVER ..................... • . . . . . . . . . . 9 Here is a small grove of timber, and very fair camping. You will now cross a number of small creeks from one to three miles apart, with some good grass, but very little timber, to UPPER PLATTE FORD OR FERRY ............... 13 The Platte is here over t ·ee hundred yards wide, extremely rapid, and bad to ford. Loose stock can be driven in and across ; but teams and wagons should always be ferried, as there is a good ferry established here. Leaving the Platte, you see no more of it ; and winding around and up Rattlesnake Hill, pass off in a southwesterly direction, over a country barren of every vegetable product but the "wild sage," a species of Artemisia, that no animal will eat, or but very little of; and yet in some of the deeper valleys, in the vicinity of creeks and springs, some good· grass is found. The .l |
