49-xx-xx ep33 Trouble Rides the Rails

From Tier Town, the saga of the roaring west. From Tier Town, El Paso, Cheyenne, Calgary, tombstones. From Tier Town. Here is the adventurous story of the early west, the tamed and the untamed. From the Pecos to Powder River, Dodge City to Poker Flat.

These are the towns they fought to live in and lived to fight for. Teaming crucibles of pioneer freedom. From Tier Town! had left me in trouble.

So, gathering up Cherokee O'Bannon, who used to peddle patent medicine, but now rents livery horses and dosaires, we set out for Spread Eagle Lake, a deep, cold blue lake in the distant mountains, where I had heard the green hunchback the steelhead and the rainbow ran up to 10 pounds.

To get to Spread Eagle, we cut through the Rockies and came down on a pass through which the railroad was building. Counselor, you sure you want to go through with this fishing trip? I bet I'm sure, Cherokee.

Why? Well, I was just thinking, fish live in water. There's one thing I abominate. It's that achles fluid chemically known as H2O, unless it's been frozen to ice and put into a drink. Well, Mr. Albanan, then maybe this little fishing expedition will change your mode of living.

Well, that's what I was afraid of. Not meaning to change the subject, but have you heard anything about the railroad building here through the gorge? I think I heard some talk about it. It's going to be a great thing for the west, this network of rails.

It will probably mean the eventual end of the frontier. Say look Chad, isn't that a work train stop down there with all the crack layers working around it? It sure is. What's more, just approaching the work train down beyond that bend, is an engine with one flat car and it's going like 60.