. 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 . THE RAILROAD ON THE PLAIITS. 49 ing- as a western focus at Omaha and Council Bluffs,sister
. 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 . THE RAILROAD ON THE PLAIITS. 49 ing- as a western focus at Omaha and Council Bluffs,sister towns on either bank of the Missouri, and con-versring; on the east into either Chicas-o or St. consequent development, in population andwealth, is perhaps the most wonderful illustration ofmodern American growth. It is within this area thatNew England is pouring the best of her emigration,and reproducing herself, in energy and industry andintelligence, on a broader, more generous and morenational basis. Council Bluffs, on the Iowa bank of the MissouriRiver, opened the year 1869 with eight thousand in-habitants, having erected thirteen hundred new build-ings in 1868, while Omaha, opposite, counted nearlydouble that number. In both cases the railroads cen-ter upon the bottom lands, but the beautiful bluffsback and above invite the living areas of the Bluffs is almost hidden amid the folding circlesof its hills, and has the fascination of mysteries in thedistance; but Oma
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