The writer, the senior of the Belt, inasmuch…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

The writer, the senior of the Belt, inasmuch as he has had some experience, can well credit the statement of the stranger and Carson. The trail is now obliterated, the buffaloes are gone, chips are a thing of the past, railroad cars have superceded the prairie schooner and the car- rion crow, on the trail, no longer revels upon the decaying flesh of an overworked ox or mule that fell from exhaustion upon the unfenced expanse west of the Missouri river and east of Santa Fe.