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Our new West : records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean : over the plains--over the mountains--through the great interior basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and down the Pacific Coast : with details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines, business, social life, progress, and prospects of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, including a full description of the Pacific Railroad : and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese : with map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations / by Samuel Bowles.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Latter Day Saints.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (524 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Hartford, Connecticut : Hartford Publishing Company, 1869.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introductory letters / from Vice-President [Schuyler] Colfax and Governor [William] Bross
- Introductory chapter: Our new West: Its extent and importance, and four great divisions ; The cordilleras of South America and their progress thorough North America ; The first great division, the plains ; The second, the Rocky Mountains ; The third, the Great Interior Basin ; The fourth, the Sierra Nevadas and the Pacific Coast ; The characteristics of each ; The promise of the book
- Over the plains by stage
- The Pacific Railroad
- Colorado : its mountains and parks
- Life among the mountains
- The Middle Park and the Ute Indians
- Mountain climbing and camp life
- An Indian "scare" and the Indians
- The mines and the farms of Colorado
- By stage into Utah
- A week in Salt Lake City
- Men and women, or polygamy, in Utah
- The future of the Mormons
- Through the desert basin by stage
- The mines of Nevada
- Over the mountains to the ocean
- California
- San Francisco
- Country excursions in California
- The Yo semite [Yosemite] Valley and the big trees
- The Chinese
- Mining in California
- Farming in California
- Oregon, Washington, British Columbia
- The Columbia River, Idaho, Montana
- Sandwich Islands, Colorado Canyon
- Home by the isthmus.
- Notes:
- "Published by subscription only."
- Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
- OCLC:
- 904538542
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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