Was it the long drive, poison water, or what?
It was evident they had not been killed but had dropped along the way.
It was a dreary trail at best, and these evidences of death did not help to brighten it in the least.

We wondered often where it led to and what new things would be our experience.

After walking fast all day we came to quite an elevation, where we could stand and look in all directions.
The low black range where we left the Jayhawkers was in sight, and this spur of the great snowy mountains extended a long way to the south, and seemed to get lower and lower, finally ending in low rocky buttes, a hundred miles away.

Some may think this distance very far to see, but those who have ever seen the clear atmosphere of that region will bear me out in these magnificent distances.

Generally a mountain or other object seen at a distance would be three or four times as far off as one would judge at first sight, so deceptive are appearances there.