...ure their own vegetables. I found Fort Leavenworth then, as now, a most beautiful spot, but in the midst of a wild Indian country. There were no whites settled in what is now the State of Kansas. Weston, in Missouri , was the great town, and speculation in town-lots there and there — about burnt the fingers of some of the army-officers, who wanted to plant their scanty dollars in a fruitful soil. I rode o...