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house of a friend in Connecticut. Very wrathy. They told him of a celebration that that township just had to mark the 250th yr. Of its founding and the host rather made fun of him a Nebraskan for coming from a state 50 years old. Kyner said "I said I could easily prove we were older by far" and his two daughters and a professor were interested and invited me to drawing room after dinner to explain. He told them the story of Quivira and its discovery by Coronado before Conn was thought of. How in his report Coronado spoke of spending winter in country flat and cold

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And told of the loss of one of his finest horses and of its burial with all equipments and its latitude and longitude. How a few years ago a farmer in Franklin Co. Nebr. In plowing his land dug up two iron stirrups finally recognized as Moorish. One of them is in Lincoln at the State Historical Society exhibit the other is at Smithsonian Institute in Washington and the two belong to Coronado's famous horse.

Finally reached Cheyenne went to Metropolitan Hotel where Mr. Haggarty wife & sister are stopping.

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The clerk held up his hands in holy horror and said he couldn't even give me a cot in the Hall for $20. Said 6000 people were in Cheyenne. Walked around a while and saw dozens of men setting[sic] on sidewalks & in door ways & saloons. Went back to depot and found seat in Denver chair car and sat their[sic] and slept until 5.30 when they began switching it around then went to Metropolitan for breakfast.
Thursday August 29
After breakfast went up and sat in the Park and wrote up my diary

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And visited with several people who dropped along and sat down side of me. Went over to Capitol building and saw all the office and the thousands of curiosities and exhibits which they have on exhibition on the top floor and which were exhibited at World's Fair and also at Trans Mississippi Exposition.

Got an early dinner and went out on train to

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State Fair ground and saw the great and only Frontier day exhibition. Buffalo Bill's then is not in it when it comes to blood and gore from wild horses and Texas steers. The Program was as follows
In the evening when to a big show in Cheyenne-with many side shows and vaudeville tough men and women mixed with the others-Wild times

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