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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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0 The scene had been one of great confusion pre-vious to loading the carts and packing the mules—these the last sad offices before burying our-selves in the prairies of the Northwest out ofUR expedition, on the afternoon of the 10th sight of civilization. Crowds of citizens from St. Paul and vicinity were present during theceremony. All about the camp-ground werescattered our provisions, sacks of flour and sugar of June, left the hill back of the apostoliccapital of Minnesota, where the tents had beenpitched and the messes made up the night before. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 18G0, by Harper and Brothers, in the Clerks Office of the Dis-trict Court for the Southern Di.strict of New York. Vol. XXL—No. 123.—T 290 HAEPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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CASCADE NEAR ST. PAUL. and beans, baiTels of pork and bags of dried beef,bags of dried apples and sacks of coffee, canis-ters of tea and kegs of powder, bags of shot andchunks of lead, rifles, shot-guns, and pistols,blankets—blue, red, white, and green; fishing-rods, pack-saddles, cart-harness, tents and tent-poles, tin kettles, iron saucepans, tin plates, car-pet-bags, valises, soap-boxes, axes, and buffalo-robes, butcher-knives and spy-glasses, and a hun-dred things besides—some useful and some use-less—relics of civilization which now lie scatteredalong the valley of the Red River of the Northand the prairies of the Saskatchewan, one by onethrown away as their owners drew the line be-tween luxuries and necessities, in passing fromcitizens to nomads. At length the carts were loaded, horses har-nessed, mules packed, and horsemen mounted. The Colonel led the train, driving a light sulkycarrying the odometer and other scientific in-struments. Balky horses were spurred up, re-frac

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