 At the end of January 1895, Crane left on what he called "a very long and circuitous newspaper trip" to the west.While writing feature articles for the Bacheller syndicate, he traveled to Saint Louis, Missouri, Nebraska, New Orleans, Galveston, Texas and then Mexico City.Irving Bacheller would later state that he "sent Crane to Mexico for new color", which the author found in the form of Mexican slum life.