The Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"Love, Nat
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"
Love, Nat
African American cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Love, Nat, 1854-1921; West (U.S.) -- Biography
Pennsylvania Limited, whose trains are the acme of modern railroading
and go to Washington, the nation's capital city. Walk along Pennsylvania
avenue and note its beauty. Visit the capitol and let your chest swell
out with pride that you are an American. Visit the tomb of General Grant
and the thousand and one magnificent statues scattered throughout the
city. Visit Annapolis and West Point, where the leaders of the nation's
navy and army are trained. Walk over the battlefields of Fredricksburg,
Gettysburg and Lexington, and let your mind speculate on the events that
made modern history.
[Illustration: This is Where I Shine. Now I am Out for the Money]
Note the majestic Potomac and the Washington monument. Take a short trip
north and see the great Niagara Falls, listen to what they tell you in
their mighty roaring voice. Go to Pittsburg where the great steel works
are located, and see how the steel pen and the steel cannon are made. Go
to Chicago, that western hive of commerce. See the Great Lakes, or
better still take a cruise on them. Note the great lumber industry of
Michigan, and the traffic of the lakes. Go to Kansas City and Omaha and
see the transformation of the Texas steer into the corned beef you ate
at your last picnic, or was it chipped beef? See the immense stock
yards with their thousands of cattle, hogs and sheep, and think of the
thousands of people that they feed. Cross the Missouri river and enter
on the plains of the great and recently unknown west. Think of the
pioneer who in 1849 traversed these once barren stretches of prairie,
walking beside his slow-moving ox team, seeking the promised land,
breaking a trail for the generations that were to come after him as you
are coming now in a Pullman car. Think of the dangers that beset him on
every hand, then wonder at the nerve he had, then again let your chest
swell with pride that you are an American, sprung from the same stock
that men were composed of in those days. Note the grandeur of the Rocky
Mountains as they rise from the plains, their peaks snow-capped,
glistening in clear blue sky, breathe the pure essence of life, drink of
the crystal streams twinkling down their sides, then scorn the wine made
by man. Listen to the salute of the bells and the whistles as the trains
approach and pass that strange monument of nature's handiwork, the Mount
of the Holy Cross.
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