NOTES

[A]If the reader cares to know more about the lively times that used to occur now and then in Granite, years ago, he can find some incidents in my “Knocking ’Round the Rockies” (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1882), on page 70 and following.

[B]If anybody doubts the full veracity of this tale, he is referred to Colonel Nat. Babcock, of Gunnison City.

Transcription of the text of [Garfields’s Memorial].

IN MEMORIAM.

JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

DIED SEPTEMBER 19, 1881,

MOURNED BY ALL THE PEOPLE.

Erected by Members of the National

Association of General Passenger and
Ticket Agents, who held Memorial
Burial Services on this spot,
September 26, 1881.

Transcriber’s Note

The cover image has been fabricated and is placed in the public domain.

Punctuation is sometimes missing from the images used to create this text, and has been restored. Normally, there is space where the punctuation was intended. Commas are sometimes vestigial, appearing as full stops, and have also been restored, without further comment. On occasion the punctuation is simply incorrect, and has been changed to follow the conventions elsewhere.

For example, from p. 81:

“... or deep blue, or washed with an amethystine tint[,/.] Arching over all bends the cloudless azure of the canopy.”

or, from p. 237:

so here it is, or at least so much of it as relates to the boy[:]

Spelling is not entirely consistent and is left as printed, with the exceptions noted below. Hyphenation of compound words varies. Where the sole instance appears on a line break, the hyphen is generally retained.

The word ‘height’ was spelled twice as ‘hight’ (p. 225 & 316), and both instances were retained. The caption of the image on p. 21 is spelled ‘PHEBE’, but appears as ‘PHŒBE’ in the list of illustrations. It is also retained.

The following table summarizes any other obvious printer’s errors that have been corrected. It also includes a number of dubious spellings or questionable usage. Misspellings in quoted text are retained.

p. 15mig[r]atoryAdded.
p. 175I[’]ve hooked himAdded.
p. 237as it relates to the boy[:]Added.
p. 238[(]until my husband bought him a cap)Added.
p. 281the easter[n]most buttressAdded.
p. 285reconnoisancesic
p. 303and beh[e/o]ld the mountains of Utah.Corrected.
p. 309a strange, [wierd], grand regionsic
p. 314castatrophe/catastropheCorrected.
p. 315Wel[c]hmensic
p. 315chara[c]teristicCorrected.
p. 319eqallyCorrected.
p. 320a[t/s] they called the redskinsCorrected.
p. 320su[r]burbanRemoved.
p. 321Brewer’s [grakle]sic
p. 336the Mediterranean is considerably [salter] than the open Atlanticsic
p. 339and our occasional emergences into itCorrected.