Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1878 — A Bridal Trip on Horseback. [ARTICLE]

A Bridal Trip on Horseback.

The days of chivalry and all that sort of thing have not departed, although railroads and Pullman palace cars have taken most of the romance out of traveling, and rendered bridal tours but another name for an expensive and often unwarranted luxury. Colorado, however, has not yet quite surrendered to the allurements of modern fashionable life, but uas a fashion of herownwoiihy

of her brave sons and fair daughters. Frank 8. Byers and wife arrived in Denver, on Monday, from Middle Park. They came through on horseback in a little more than two days. The first day’s journey was fifty miles, and over the summit of the snowy range. That is romance and reality in a bridal tour as wonderful as it is rare in these latter years of effeminate ease. What would a fifth avenue belle or a Boston beauty think of journeying fifty miles through snow and storm over the Rocky mountains in midwinter, as it were, on a pleasure trip ? —Denver News.