Denver itself.--A Mountain City.--Her Growth and Enterprise.--Judge Gale and her Gamblers.--Bishop Randall.--Her want of Trees and Shrubbery.--Metropolis of Colorado.--Gov. Cumming.--Hints of Judge Lynch.--Reception of Gen. Sherman and Brother.--Golden City.--The Snowy Range.--Central City.--Its Population and Pluck.--Placer Mining.--Quartz Lodes.--Gregory Mine.--A Good Superintendent _vs._ a Poor One.--Colorado Ores in general.--A new "process" wanted.--Watered Stock Companies.--"Freezing Out."--Mining Statistics.--The Coming Mineralogist.--Idaho City.--The Saratoga of Colorado.--Georgetown and Mill City.--Clear Creek and ride back to Denver.--Miners Slang.--"You Bet." 58-74 CHAPTER VI. _Among the Mountains._ First View of Rocky Mountains.--Above and Across them to Fort Garland.--Rumors of Indians.--A Stormy Divide.--"Dirty Woman's Ranch."--Castle Rock.--Buttes.--Monument Creek.--Garden of the Gods.--Pike's Peak.--Soda Springs.--Colorado City.--Cañon City.--_Fontaine qui Bouilli._--Irrigation.--Pueblo.--The Arkansas, Greenhorn, and Huerfano, and their Valleys.--Mexican Laborers.--Hincklin's Ranch.--Sangre del Christo Pass.--Views from Summit.--Descent into San Luis Park.--Sangre del Christo Creek.--A Mule-back Ride.--Trout Fishing.--Snow-squalls and a Cold "Camp."--Mexicans and Bronchos,--Culebra.--A Mexican Baille.--Don Jesus.--A Dancing People. 75-93 CHAPTER VII. _Among the Mountains_ (continued). The Parks of the Rocky Mountains.--San Luis Park particularly.--The Backbone of the Continent.--The Rio Grande and its Bottoms.--Fine Trout-streams.--Snow Squalls.--Sierra Blanca.--Russell's Ranch.--Good Specimen of a Colorado Pioneer.--Homan's Park.--Kerber's Ranch.--A Dairy in the Heart of the Rocky Mountains.--Hospitable Germans.--Camping-out on the Summit.--Poncho Pass and Creek.--Absence of Game.--A Bad Road.--The Arkansas again.--South Park.--Leutze's Painting in the Capitol.--Mexican _vs._ Yankee.--Salt Works.--Duck Shooting.--Fair Play.--South Platte.--Placer Mining.--Buckskin Joe.--Judge Costello and his Hotel.--The Newspapers again.--Elections of 1866.--Rocky Mountain Eagle.--Down the South Platte.--A Good Road.--Bradford's Hill.--The Plains again.--The Mule Kate.--A Gold and Silver Mining Company.--A Little Fun! 95-113 CHAPTER VIII. _The Indians--Gen. Sherman--Kit Carson, etc._