From Wisconsin to California and Return, as Reported for the Wisconsin State Journal, 1869 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from From Wisconsin to California and Return, as Reported for the Wisconsin State Journal, 1869

You cannot adequately imagine the excitement in this city regarding these excursions, as parties are daily starting to and returning from the land of gold by this potent railroad route.

The party organized in the Sherman House parlor this morn ing, by electing Hon. Philetus Sawyer, President; James Ross, Secretary; D. K. Tenney, Esq., Treasurer; and Messrs. Van Slyke, Parsons and Tenney, the Executive Committee. The members of this committee, from the first conception of the trip, have very ably and carefully designed and carried out every arrangement.

The party will stay one day at Omaha and one day at Lara mie, at which last place they expect to hunt antelope and fish for trout and then sit down to a feast fit for vigorous Badgers at an altitude of over feet. Think of eating such diet in the bracing air of such a height, where the pure water of the region is said to have three times the elevating effect of that of the common stimulants.

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