PILLARS OF HERCULES, CHEYENNE CANON.
Frontispiece.
A Trip to the Rockies
BY
B. R. C.
NEW YORK
The Knickerbocker Press
1890
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
Electrotyped and Printed by
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
TO THE “DALMATIA” PARTY
THE MOST INTELLIGENT AND CONGENIAL COMPANY
OF TOURISTS THAT THE
“SKY-KISSING CLIFFS AND PRAIRIES PRANKED WITH FLOWERS”
EVER WELCOMED
WHOSE ASSOCIATION WILL EVER BE CHERISHED AMONG THE
“PLEASURES OF MEMORY”
THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
A Trip to the Rockies.
FOR three months—since my first visit to Kansasin June last—the anticipation of another visithad been uppermost in many minds.
The writer was authorized by Mr. Blanchard to selecta party of bankers and business men of New York andBrooklyn to attend the annual convention of the“American Bankers’ Association,” to be held inKansas City, September 24th and 25th. To add to thegrowing interest, already manifested in the trip by theelect, a telegram was received, as follows: “Hutchinson,Kansas, July 23d. Each guest will have a section,and is cordially invited to bring his wife.—Ben Blanchard.”This telegram was the keystone to the arch.Had the Pullman Company been able to furnish alarger car, our number would have been doubled. Asthe car was too long to go over the B. & O., via Washington,Harper’s Ferry, and Cumberland Gap, onaccount of the short curves, we went via Pennsylvaniathrough Harrisburg, Johnstown, and Altoona.
[8]The ever-watchful reporter was on hand, and thefollowing description from the Brooklyn Standard-Unionwas a very good report of our car and companyas we left Jersey City, September 23d.
“A large party of Brooklynites crossed FultonFerry early this morning, most of the men carryinggripsacks and the ladies satchels. It was evidently aparty of tourists; and the wide-awake wage-workers,who were crossing the ferry at the same time, recognizingsome of the best-known people of the ‘City ofChurches’ in the par