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Search - Beyond The Mississippi: From The Great River To The Great Ocean - Life And Adventure On The Prairies, Mountains, And Pacific Coast

Beyond The Mississippi From The Great River To The Great Ocean - Life And Adventure On The Prairies Mountains And Pacific Coast
Author: Albert D. Richardson

PREFATORY. TWENTY years ago, half our continent was an unknown land, and the Rocky Mountains were our Pillars of Hercules. Five years hence, the Orient will be our next-door neighbor. We shallhold the worlds granary, the worlds treasury, the worlds highway. But we shall have no Far West, no border, no Civilization, in line of battle, pressing sa... more »vages, and hostile conquering Nature. back hostile I have sought to picture a fleeting phase of our national life not omitting its grotesque, lawless features not concealing my admiration for the adventurous pioneers who have founded great States from the Missis sippi to the Pacific, and made a new geography for the American Union. It is discreditable to Americans peculiarly so to those with means and leisure for traveling abroad that they know little of this geography little of the greatness, richness and beauty of our national inheritance. In exhaustlessness and variety of resources, no other country on the globe equals ours beyond the Mississippi. In grand natural curiosities and wonders, all other countries combined fall far below it. Its mines, forests and prairies await the capitalist. Its dusky races, earth-monuments and ancient cities importune tne antiquarian. cataracts, canyons and crests woo the painter. Its Its mountains, minerals and stupendous vegetable productions challenge the naturalist. Its air invites the invalid, healing the system wounded by ruder climates. Its society welcomes the immigrant, offering high interest upon ment of money, brains or skill and if need be, generous errors past a clean page to begin anew the record of his life. his invest obliviousness of The themes are fruitful. The Pacific Railroad hastens toward comple tion. We seem on the threshold of a destiny higher and better than any nation has yet fulfilled. And the great West is to rule us. The field is very large. In crossing it here and there, I have only lin gered at some noteworthy points. Future writers will study and depict it, State by State, more minutely and more worthily. NEW YORK, May, 1867. POSTSCRIPT. In view of the unexpectedly large and continuing demand for this work, a re vised edition is issued, with a corrected map, a copious alphabetical index, and fifty pages ofnew reading matter, bringing it forward to the date of the completion of our first railroad across the continent. NEW YORK, June 1869. ILLUSTRATIONS. ARTISTS NAMES IN SMALL CAPITALS ENGEAY1ES IN ITALICS. 1 MAP of the region between the Mississippi and the Pacific. Two pages. Drawn on wood by TUDOR HORTON engraved by Fay Cox 2 Illuminated Title page. THOMAS NAST. J. P. Davis Speer. 3 The Gray Goose Quill. A. C. WARREN. Fay Cox 17 4 A Snagged Steamer. A. R. WAUD. Davis Speer. 21 5 The Grade in Kansas City. A. R. WAUD. Davis Speer 6 Lawrence Kansas, 26 in 1857. THOMAS HOGAN. Davis Speer. 7 Waukarusa. GEORGE G. WHITE. Davis Speer. 8 Mud Fort. HOGAN. Davis Speer 9 Capture of Colonel Titus. WHITE. N...

ISBN-13: 9781406721140
ISBN-10: 140672114X
Publication Date: 10/9/2007
Pages: 656
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Publisher: Cooper Press
Book Type: Paperback
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