. 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 ... 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 . s withSalt Lake and the Rest of Mankind—The Stage Ride over the BlueMountains, Through Idaho,
. 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 ... 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 . s withSalt Lake and the Rest of Mankind—The Stage Ride over the BlueMountains, Through Idaho, to Salt Lake—The Scenery and theMines on the Route—The Shoshone Falls, the Rival of Niagara—The Stage Lines Through Idaho and Montana—A* Trip ThroughMontana—Its Mountains and its Mines—The Northern Pacific Rail-road—Montanas Present Development and Future Prospects—TheBoat Ride Down the Missouri River Home. Whek an enthusiastic Oregonian told me the Columbia Kiver was the largest of the Continent, andwatered a wider section of country than any other, Ithought of the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi, andsmiled with mild incredulity. But unroll your map,and trace its course into the heart of the North-west-ern interior, through the Cascade Mountains, backinto the great basin between them and the RockyMountains, and then, by its main branches, stretch-ing up north and winding out through all BritishColumbia, and south and east into Idaho, and over SCENERY OF THE COLUMBIA Mount Hood.
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