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Excerpt from A Thrilling and Truthful History of the Pony Express: Or Blazing the Westward Way, and Other Sketches and Incidents of Those Stirring Times
Rising, the sun points westward, by the shadows of the trees. The shadows of the mountains, and of monuments and men, And westward is the trending from the continents and seas; From all the earth, within the scope of mortal sight and ken.
From where the murky waters of the dark Missouri ?ow, And blot the blue of Mississippi''s clear and placid tide, Since the dawn of Western Empire, a hundred years ago, Have ridden bands of hardy men, with Progress for their guide.
Amid the forests and along, where to the tawny stream, Come branches, lazing eastward, across the desert plain, They rode, and on, twixt castled buttes, to where the mountains gleam, ''neath helmets of eternal snow, ''mid Nature''s rugged reign.
Among the Sioux and Shoshone, and Cheyenne tribes that roamed, The region where the riders bold, undaunted took their way; Along the placid rivers, and where cascades dashed and foamed, They blazed the way of Empire; lit its wider, brighter day.
Over the mountain ranges, and among the crags and peaks; Adown the streams that turn toward the great Pacific Sea; Where Nature unto Nature''s God her sonorous aves speaks, Along the canons and the dalles, the forests and the lea.
Highways of steel have stretched along the trail the seekers made.
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Rising, the sun points westward, by the shadows of the trees. The shadows of the mountains, and of monuments and men, And westward is the trending from the continents and seas; From all the earth, within the scope of mortal sight and ken.
From where the murky waters of the dark Missouri ?ow, And blot the blue of Mississippi''s clear and placid tide, Since the dawn of Western Empire, a hundred years ago, Have ridden bands of hardy men, with Progress for their guide.
Amid the forests and along, where to the tawny stream, Come branches, lazing eastward, across the desert plain, They rode, and on, twixt castled buttes, to where the mountains gleam, ''neath helmets of eternal snow, ''mid Nature''s rugged reign.
Among the Sioux and Shoshone, and Cheyenne tribes that roamed, The region where the riders bold, undaunted took their way; Along the placid rivers, and where cascades dashed and foamed, They blazed the way of Empire; lit its wider, brighter day.
Over the mountain ranges, and among the crags and peaks; Adown the streams that turn toward the great Pacific Sea; Where Nature unto Nature''s God her sonorous aves speaks, Along the canons and the dalles, the forests and the lea.
Highways of steel have stretched along the trail the seekers made.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
William Lightfoot Visscher
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780364462843
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 101
Paperback
Contributors
Author
William Lightfoot Visscher
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781331717300
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 103
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