. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . RAS. lERRA is the Spanisli word for sawand also for * mountain/ referring to thenotched outline of the mountains asseen against the sky/ My main object now was to push oato Sacramento. At Kelton, in Utah,where I remained only a few hours, Iwas still seven hundred and ninety milesfrom my destination. Stock is exten-sively grazed here and cattle s
. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . RAS. lERRA is the Spanisli word for sawand also for * mountain/ referring to thenotched outline of the mountains asseen against the sky/ My main object now was to push oato Sacramento. At Kelton, in Utah,where I remained only a few hours, Iwas still seven hundred and ninety milesfrom my destination. Stock is exten-sively grazed here and cattle shipped to the Pacificcoast in very large numbers. Leaving Kelton, I rodethirty-three miles to Terrace, a small settlement in themidst of a desert; thence to Wells in the adjoiningState of Nevada. Nevada belongs to the ^ Great Basin, a table-landelevated 4,500 feet above the sea. It is traversed,with great uniformity, by parallel mountain ranges,rising from 1,000 to 8,000 feet high, running northand south. Long, narrow valleys, or canyons, lie be-tween them. The Sierra Nevada, in some places13,000 feet in height, extends along the westernboundary of the State. The only navigable river isthe Colorado, but there are several other streams ris-(506). ovhR Till: sua:HAS. r>()<) uvj; in llic inoiintaiiis and <iii[)tyiiiL;; into lakts Nvliichliave no visible outlet. LaUe Talioe is twenty-onemiles long, ten miles wide and filteen linndred feetdeep. Although it is elevated 0,000 Ieet above thesea level, the water of this lake never freezes and hasa mean temperature of 57° for the year. Nevada hasits hot springs, some of wliieh have a temperature oftwo hundred degrees. A heavy growth of timber, particularly of pine, fir,and spruce, covers the eastern slopes of the SierraNevada, many of the trees attaining enormous are numerous alkaline fiats, and extensive sandplains, where nothing growls. The first discovery ofsilver ore was made on the Comstock lode in 1859,from whi
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