We had hour after hour and day after day of railroad travel, over level, unbroken land on which cattle fed unprotected, summer and winter, and which seemed to implore the traveller to stay and to accept its richness.

It must be centuries before the now unpeopled land of western Kansas and Colorado can be crowded.
"We started from Boston a party of two; at Cincinnati a third joined us; at Kansas City we came upon a fourth who was ready to fall into our ranks, and at Denver two more awaited us; so we were a party of six--'All good women and true.' "All along the road it had been evident that the country was roused to a knowledge of the coming eclipse; we overheard remarks about it; small telescopes travelled with us, and our landlord at Kansas City, when I asked him to take care of a chronometer, said he had taken care of fifty of them in the previous fortnight.

Our party had three telescopes and one chronometer.
"We had travelled so comfortably all along the Santa Fe road, from Kansas City to Pueblo, that we had forgotten the possibility of other railroad annoyances than those of heat and dust until we reached Pueblo.
At Pueblo all seemed to change.

We left the Santa Fe road and entered upon that of the Rio Grande.
"Which road was to blame, it is not for me to say, but there was trouble at once about our 'round-trip ticket.' That settled, we supposed all was right.
"In sending out telescopes so far as from Boston to Denver, I had carefully taken out the glasses, and packed them in my trunks.

I carried the chronometer in my hand.
"It was only five hours' travel from Pueblo to Denver, and we went on to that city.