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Undeveloped West 140: I had the pleasure (?) of seeing at least a score of ‘smart Alecks’ relieved of their surplus cash by betting on the ‘strap galoe,’ ‘patent lock,’ ‘ten-die game,’ ‘three-card monte’ and other beautiful uncertainties. Undeveloped West 48: A furious rivalry raged between the city and Council Bluffs on the eastern side of the Missouri; pretty much in the ‘You’re another!’ style of argument. Undeveloped West 300: [I] go out for an evening to look at the ‘Barbary Coast.’ This consists of some twenty squares along Dupont and adjoining streets, from Stockton to Post and Sacramento, inhabited exclusively by low foreigners, petty thieves, Chinese and prostitutes. Undeveloped West 37: It didn’t weigh half as much as I expected, an’, be japers, I always knowed it wouldn’t. Undeveloped West 92: The long hall is soon crowded with a motley throng of three or four hundred miners, ranchmen, clerks, ‘bullwhackers,’ gamblers and ‘cappers’. Undeveloped West 140: I had the pleasure (?) of seeing at least a score of ‘smart Alecks’ relieved of their surplus cash by betting on the ‘strap galoe,’ ‘patent lock,’ ‘ten-die game,’ ‘three-card monte’ and other beautiful uncertainties. Undeveloped West 369: ‘Brad Collins is on a big spree [...]’ ‘You bet he’s a chargin’.’ [HDAS]. Undeveloped West 704: We’ll reach Sioux City by 5 o’clock, if we don’t fall down. Undeveloped West 337: From thirty to forty tons of ore [...] [were] good for an average profit of a hundred and fifty dollars per ton [DA]. Undeveloped West 93: The horny-handed miner, and the dapper, conservative looking gentleman, are ‘cappers;’ they have borne their part in the game, and ‘hooked a gudgeon.’. Undeveloped West 304: If one has read a description of the ‘hard quarter’ of one city, he knows enough about all. Undevel. West 190: As it was my first visit to Washington, I was but poorly ‘heeled’ for the work. Undeveloped West 620: In the slang of the mountains, the Navajoes are ‘my pet Injins’. Undeveloped West 142: All who could sling ink became correspondents. Undeveloped West 103: Sammy Richards had [...] ‘the softest layout in the business.’. Undeveloped West 34: A third was positive the Lake Region would straighten me out. Undeveloped West 510: It is a splendid country to travel through; a miserable poor one to stop in to make a ‘stake’. Undeveloped West 140: I had the pleasure (?) of seeing at least a score of ‘smart Alecks’ relieved of their surplus cash by betting on the ‘strap game,’ [...] and other beautiful uncertainties which are so worked as to appear ‘a dead sure thing’ to the uninitiated. Undeveloped West 92: I am never weary of watching the game, and the various fortunes of those who ‘buck against the tiger.’.