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Show 274 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. " The Squire assured them that this ceremony would do until he could take counsel of a lawyer, and adjourned the matter for ten days. This satisfied the parties, and they went on their way, but they never returned to have the amendment made to the ceremony, and are still living together as man and woman." CHAPTER LVI. THE HUNT. Taking the baby railroad for Pueblo we found ourselves in company with a party of Nimrods, who were returning from a big hunt. They were enthusiastic on the subject, and talked freely of their exploits. Said Mr. J. W. C, " I shall always remember the grand old time we had in '82. A party of us left Denver for a month's hunt in Southwestern Colorado, in the Ute country, from which the Indians had a short time previously been removed. The Rio Grande R. R. was at that time building its Salt Lake line, and was just reaching the reservation. We arrived in Delta (now a flourishing town, but then the toughest place in the West), at midnight, and camped in the sand and sage brush. Tal-madge said Leadville, in its booming days, surpassed anything he ever saw in the way of wickedness, but he should have visited a railroad camp, when the graders and miners were making a night of it. We concluded the Utes had not been removed. "We traveled up the wide valley of the Gunnison, thence up Tougue and Surface creeks until we reached the Grand Mesa, a country that can only be described by say- |