The Valley of the Ohio—Much of the United States will produce Wine—Illinois at Night—First View of Lake Michigan—Chicago—A Sign of outward Religion—‘Small-pox here’—Fire Alarm—Liberality of Chicago Merchants—The Dollar not all-in-all—A Church lighted from the Roof—A handsome American—America has developed a new type of Features—Chicago Schools—An exception to the American way of denouncing the official Class—Chicago Sunday Schools—Programme of one I attended—Excellence of Water at Chicago—How supplied—Lifting up the City—Post Office Arrangements—A disadvantage of frequent change of Clerks—Americans on Aristocracy—How the Germans, the masses of the people, and the upper class feel towards it 182 CHAPTER XIV. Prairie from Chicago to Omaha—Plains from North Platte to the Mountains—Omaha, the intersection of the Pacific Railway and the Missouri—Temporary Bridge over the Missouri—Indifference to Risks affecting Life—A Prairie Fire—The Forest on the Mountains on Fire—Fire the cause of the Treelessness of the Prairies—First found Animal Life abounding in the Valley of the Platte—‘The hardest place, Sir, on this Continent’—Its Predecessor—How it is possible to establish Lynch Law at Shyenne—My first Night in Shyenne—A second Night in Shyenne—Necessity and advantages of Lynch Law—‘The use of the Pistol’—A Man shot because ‘he might have done some mischief’—Newness of Aspects both of Society and of Nature 202 CHAPTER XV. The Armament and Experience of a German Herdmaster—A Stage Coach on the Plains—The Party in the Coach—The only Colonel I met in the United States—The Colonel’s Wife—A Colorado Herdmaster—A Philadelphian Graduate—Two jocose Denver Storekeepers—Advantage of having one’s Rifle in the Coach—A Californian’s account of a Skirmish with Indians—Manners and Life at a house on the Plains—A Lady of the Plains—American Society judges Men fairly—Between Shyenne and Denver 221 CHAPTER XVI. The City of Denver—The Ladies give a Ball—Manners of Denver—‘Quite our finest Gentleman’—The Plains will be to America an improved Australia—The advantages they offer for Flocks and Herds—Will soon be clear of Indians—Markets now opened to them—Size of the Runs—Wealth of the Region 233 CHAPTER XVII. The Rocky Mountains—Golden City—Golden Gates—Mining Towns—Neighbouring Mountains stripped of every Tree—What grows on the Mountains—American Horses—Roads and Bridges they have to pass—How, six-in-hand, we went down a Hillside in the Mountains—A nice Distinction as to Accidents on this Hill—Climate—Wind-storms—Birds—Dogs 241 CHAPTER XVIII.