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Show GREELEY. 137 and there he stands a relic of past grandeur, watching the roll of years. I have spun so many yarns on the way this seems like a long trip, but it can be done satisfactorily in two days at a trifling expense. Upon reaching Denver, the natural key to all points of scenic interest, we expressed a great desire to turn right around and go over the same route again, but our plans were mapped out and we had no time to repeat. CHAPTER XXXII. GREELEY. Touring in the mountains of Colorado is attended with none of the fatigue and weariness that generally accompanies excursions elsewhere. The distance from one place of interest to another is short, the air bracing, the hotels comfortable, and the trains start from all points at such seasonable and reasonable hours one is not afflicted with nervous excitement in a frantic effort to be on time for the cars-or sick headache. We passed but one night in Denver, and the next day took a run to Greeley, a thriving town, with comfortable and elegant homes embowered in trees. " "Fourteen years ago," said one of the first settlers, "when a new comer stepped from the cars, the people looking on, in real or pretended pity, said: 'Here comes another victim.' It was indeed disheartening, for this was then a boundless expanse of dry, sandy plains. We stepped from the cars to a pile of lumber, and from the lumber into a prickly pear bed; being 'tenderfeet' we |
