. The great Northwest, a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the Oregon and California Railroad, containing descriptions of States, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . Si. Paul 1^ St. Paul. This city, the capital of Minnesota, is picturesquely situated at the headof steamboat navigation on th
. The great Northwest, a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the Oregon and California Railroad, containing descriptions of States, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . Si. Paul 1^ St. Paul. This city, the capital of Minnesota, is picturesquely situated at the headof steamboat navigation on the Mississippi River, over two thousand milesfrom its mouth. Thirty-four years ago, when Congress gave the State itsterritorial organization, fixing the seat of government at St. Paul, the nameof the place appeared on no map, and geographers only knew that it was avery small settlement, somewhere near tlie Falls of St. Anthony, in thatindefinite region called the Far West. To-day St. Haul has nearly 80,000inhabitants, and its wonderful growth and prosperity fairly class it amongthe remarkable cities of the great Northwest. Many of its people, nowscarcely beyond middle age, remember well its appearance on the advent ofthe white mans civilization. It was at that time a favorite resort of theIndians, to whom it was known as Im-mi-gas-ka, or White Rock, on accountof the towering bluffs of sandstone which mark the course of the river. Asuccession of undulating and bea
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