. 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 . of Colorado—Its Rapid Develop-ment—Fertile Valleys and Astonishing Crops—Cost of Living—St
. 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 . of Colorado—Its Rapid Develop-ment—Fertile Valleys and Astonishing Crops—Cost of Living—Stock Raising—Coal and Iron and Manufactures—Professor Agassizand the Glaciers—The Population of Colorado and its Character-istics—AVhen to Visit its Mountains and Parks—The Resort ofPleasure Seekers and Health Hunters. It remains for us, before going over into the GreatBasin of the Continent, to consider the industrialinterests, growth, prosperity and promise of Color-ado. These have only been incidentally alluded toso far; but they deserve special exhibition. Thediscovery of gold among the sands of the mountainvalleys in 1859 was the beginning of the presentState. Thousands flocked across the Plains in thatyear in eager scramble for the fabled wealth. For-tune ebbed and flowed with them as in all miningventures; the few won, many struggled and sufferedfor a bare subsistence, nearly as many more lost allthey brought with them, even their hopes, and went THE MARCH OF An Indian Encampmknt and a Miners Cabin.
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