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.
Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878, author.
1869
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Title 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.
Author Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878, author.
Published Hartford, Connecticut : Hartford Publishing Company, 1869.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (524 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits.
Note "Published by subscription only."
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Access Note Access limited to authorized
Series Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
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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.

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