June 1, 2014

"The West of 1860"

“The West of 1860”

cji
6/1/14

Wild imaginations to envision
running rivers and great forests
cold and freezing stream beds
trouble behind every (what?)
for Nebraska had no trees*
thus a wilderness of deserts
plains rolling with strong winds
Wyoming at heights of 6000’
sometimes higher to need climb
the Grand Canyon to cross
without roads and faint trails
none much like we see today
or even in the old Westerns
more like in Hondo found
blistering hot or freezing cold
sand storms and blizzards
the West of the 1860’s!

(*1872 over a million trees
planted in Nebraska as it
was mostly barren)


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