Diary: Joseph A. Gilpin, October 27, 1886 to August 25, 1895

that the services were held in the O'Hare Home today, about 1000 people being although there was a heavy sorrow falling & the weather was disagreeable to the [?], [?] Henry W. Warren delivered a powerful jubilee sermon. Yours with love (Denver) Joe. May - Latter part of 1887. Made a trip to Colorado Springs & [?] where I saw Mr. Jackson & told him of my expedition of going home to S.S. The truth was a very [?] one. Ranch after ranch was passed, camp after camp of cowboys and railroad builders, and prairie [?] immeasurable were seen. The car that I occupied was occupied by a young man with a club foot who I took particular notice of as he had a striking countenance , after coming home I found that he was in S.S. on a [?] the Halloween & that he was [?] & Denver, Real Estate + Loans. [?] this in Sandy Spring by his Countenance which is a carraige & {?] guiding after word of this smaller brother I found that he was the owner of a club foot & had

June 21st 1887. It has been quite a while since I have written in my Diary and I will now try to make up for lost time. I started from Dever on June 1st, [?] mouth and one day lines & arrived in the beautiful city of the plains, my return trip across plains forest & mountain to the town of Sandy Spring which I left something that 9 months before. I had byt little time in which to bid my friends goodby as there was but little notice given to me from home to pack up & get ready to & saw all of them & could and I started from the Union & Shot on Wednesday June 21st 1887 at 1:50 P.M The trip to Colorado Springs was especially interesting as I had been there before as stated in my last notes. The [?] stations there Littleton, Castle Rock, Edgarton, Sequoia & mention the part for its insignificance rather than for [?] for standing, this town consisted of a water wank beside the railroad track, a small dwelling houaw qith the sign in big letters on a small board "Post Office" land the third set off & also

the only besides those mentioned was a "dug out" [?] a bank with several [?] from the neighboring ranches, running them selves under the [?] sign, and maternal [?] for that [?] "ZANG'S LAGER BEER BY THE DRINK OR KEG". Edgarton was even more insignificant as [?] - Only station & [?] shot in one Brieding. Castle Rock is quite a pretty place, taking its name from a large rock formed by nature in shape & forming fortress of armed castle [?] & the railroad track. [?] Castle Rock is much larger than the other two towns mentioned. A remarkable feature of the settlement of Colorado for [?] is the wat in which they are taken my by the Eastern immigrants who travel for hundreds of miles across the plains in their [?]. A [?] with [?] made by the government to the emmigrant who takes [?] land on conditions [?] cabin 8 x 10 & [?] lives there & means. In this way the Colorado government [?] are being [?]

Arkansas & [?] emmigrants. The Prairie [?] is about as shown in the [?] peer of the nest with Pilar Peak on [?] on the covers & large, low, long canvas covered wagons drawn by [?] or horses & ocassionally by oxen, the pole possession of the immigrant with his familt occupy the interion & the [?] it may be, follow in the rear. The houses along the route to Colorado Springs is lined sharply with small houses, cabins, and tents, occupied by cowboys, rail-road men, and in [?], the seekers of a cool place outside the heat. To the cities, [?] from Denver. The other places of the tent on the ay to Colorado Springs were [?] in my trip to Hamton Springs in [?] before this. I arrived [?] at Colorado Springs about 4 O'clock where where a couple rough fellows tried a grame called "macing' which '?' in begging for a dime or nickle when a [?] gets on the train & look around & is the [?] not give away things they free him

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