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 on the plains, the Indians were often hostile, and one day in 1868 they attacked the workmen near the present station of Elm Creek and killed five men just three hours after Mr. Jeffries had unloaded his wagonload of supplies for them and started back toward the Union Pacific freight cars for more. The boys were so anxious to see just where this happened that the conductor spent nearly a quarter of an hour watching so that he could show them the exact spot.

All the afternoon the train went on up the Valley of the Platte which reached across the unending plains where wheat fields follow corn fields and cattle ranches follow wheat fields on the range where once the buffaloes roamed in countless thousands.

At sunset they reached Cheyenne, where the boys had to wait a few minutes in the station for the two Aldrich boys who lived near Kansas City and had there taken a Union Pacific train for Denver and then on to Cheyenne, arriving ten minutes after the