Download or read book Incidents of a Trip Through the Great Platte Valley, to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains written by Silas Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Col. Silas Seymour's narrative of personal incidents of a trip on a special train on the Union Pacific Railroad with government inspectors in September, 1866 to Kearney, Nebraska and in December, 1866, to the end of track, about 12 miles from North Platte.