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- everybody patronizes, as it is celebrated for
its good fare, is tastefully ornamented with
the heads and horns of the buffalo, deer,
elk, antelope, mountain sheep, and other
game, all preserved and looking as natural
as life; here, too, is a great variety of
other interesting specimens.

The other hotels are the Inter-Ocean,
Deimonico, on the European plan, Dyer’s,
Simmon’s, and Metropolitan.

Earuty Times—On the fourth day of
July, 1867, there was one house in Cheyenne
—no more. The first Mayor of Cheyenne
was H. M. Hook, an old pioneer, elected
August 10, 1867, who was afterwards
drowned in Green River, while prospecting
for new silver mines.

In the spring of 1869, there were 6,000
inhabitants in the place and about the vi-
cinity; but as the road extended westward,
the floating, tide-serving portion followed
the road, leaving the more permanent set-
tlers, who have put up substantial build-
ings of brick and stone, which mark a
thriving and steadily growing city.

Cheyenne, at one time, had her share of
the “roughs” and gambling hells, dance-
houses, and wild orgies; murders by night
and day were rather
the rule instead of the
exception. This lasted
until the business men
and quiet citizens, tired
of such doings, and

involving a loss of halfa-million dollars.
The inhabitants, with commendable zeal,
rebuilt, in many instances, with more
durabie material than before.
GOVERNMENT FORTS AND CAMPS.

Fort D. A. RusseLu—This post was es-
tablished July 81, 1857, by General Auger,
and intended to accommodate sixteen com-
panies. It is three miles from Cheyenne,
on Crow Creek, which washes two sides
of the enclosure. Latitude 41 deg. 08 min.;
longitude10- deg 45 min. Itisconnected by
side-track with the Union Pacific railroad
at Cheyenne. The quarter-master’s depart-
ment—12 store-houses—is located between
the fort and the town, at “Camp Carling.”
Several million pounds of Government
stores are gathered here, from which the
forts to the northwest draw their supplies.
The reservation on which the fort is situ-
ated was declared by the President, June
28th, 1869, and contains 4,512 acres.

Fort Laramre—This fort was estab-
lished August 12th, 1869, by Major W. F.
Sanderson, Mounted Rifles. The place,

once a trading post of the Northwestern
Fur Company, was purchased by the Goy-
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characters were found
swinging from the
end of a rope, from
some convenient eleva-
tion. Others, taking
the hint, which in-
dicated they would
take a rope unless they
mended their ways,
quietly left the city.
At present Cheyenne
is orderly and well-
governed.

In the fall of 1869,
Cheyenne suffered se-
verely by a large con-
flagration, which de-
stroyed a considerable
portion. of the busi-
ness part of the town,

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DOWN THE WEBER RIVER, NEAR MORGAN

CITY