Chapter I: Front Matter

THE WEST
FROM A CAR-WINDOW

BY

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
AUTHOR OF “VAN BIBBER AND OTHERS” ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1903

Copyright, 1892, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

_All rights reserved._

TO
M. K. J.
OF
THE SEVENTH INFANTRY

CONTENTS

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FROM SAN ANTONIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI 3

OUR TROOPS ON THE BORDER 27

AT A NEW MINING CAMP 59

A THREE-YEAR-OLD CITY 93

RANCH LIFE IN TEXAS 121

ON AN INDIAN RESERVATION 151

A CIVILIAN AT AN ARMY POST 185

THE HEART OF THE GREAT DIVIDE 215

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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_A Bucking Broncho_ Frontispiece

_Head-piece_ 3

_Rangers in Camp_ 9

“_Remember the Alamo!_” 19

_Trumpeter Tyler_ 29

_Captain Francis H. Hardie, G Troop, Third United States Cavalry_ 37

_Water_ 43

_The Mexican Guide_ 49

_Third Cavalry Troopers--Searching a Suspected Revolutionist_ 53

_Mining Camp on the Range Above Creede_ 60

_Creede_ 63

_How Land is Claimed for Building--Planks Nailed Together and
Resting on Four Stumps_ 66

_The “Holy Moses” Mine_ 69

_Debatable Ground--A Warning to Trespassers_ 73

_A Mining Camp Court-house_ 75

_Shaft of a Mine_ 79

_Valuable Real Estate_ 83

_Upper Creede_ 87

_Oklahoma City on the Day of the Opening_ 94

_Five Days After the Opening_ 97

_Four Weeks After the Opening_ 101

_Captain D. F. Stiles_ 105

_Post-office, April 22, 1889_ 108

_Post-office, July 4, 1890_ 111

_Oklahoma City To-day--Main Broadway_ 115

_The Ranch-house on the King Ranch, the Largest Range Owned by
One Individual in the United States_ 123

_A Shattered Idol_ 127

_Snapping a Rope on a Horse’s Foot_ 130

_Hillingdon Ranch_ 133

_Fixing a Break in the Wire Fence_ 137

_Gathering the Rope_ 141

_Reaction Equals Action_ 145

_Tail-piece_ 148

_The Cheyenne Type_ 152

_Big Bull_ 155

_One of Williamson’s Stages_ 159

_The Beef Issue at Anadarko_ 163

_Indian Boy and Pinto Pony_ 169

_A Kiowa Maiden_ 175

_A One-company Post at Oklahoma City_ 187

_The Omnipotent Bugler_ 191

_United States Military Post at San Antonio_ 195

_United States Cavalryman in Full Dress_ 199

_United States Military Post--Infantry Parade_ 203

_Fort Houston, at San Antonio--Officers’ Quarters_ 207

_The Barracks, Fort Houston_ 210

_Gateway of the Garden of the Gods, and Pike’s Peak_ 217

_Within the Gates, Garden of the Gods_ 223

_Polo Above the Snow-line at Colorado Springs_ 227

_Mount of the Holy Cross_ 233

_Pike’s Peak from Colorado Springs_ 239

I

FROM SAN ANTONIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI

By
Richard Harding Davis.]