. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . manflesh ; a land given up to darkness and death—a broad black belt ofterritory indicated upon our maps as the terra incognita, now a landof peopled towns, of wealth and riches, of labor and prosperity, ofhappy homes and sunshine. And this is what hath been given us by the mighty forces of civili-zation first displayed and set in motion in an inhospitable land bythat chivalrous crusader—the Ameri
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . manflesh ; a land given up to darkness and death—a broad black belt ofterritory indicated upon our maps as the terra incognita, now a landof peopled towns, of wealth and riches, of labor and prosperity, ofhappy homes and sunshine. And this is what hath been given us by the mighty forces of civili-zation first displayed and set in motion in an inhospitable land bythat chivalrous crusader—the American pioneer and gold-seeker! During the administration of Thomas Jefferson, and at his urgentappeal, Congress voted an appropriation for the initial survey of thevast wilderness lying between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean,by an expedition to discover a practicable route for travel and traffic,to follow the Missouri River to its source, pass over the mountain head-lands and descend the water-courses of the western coast until theymerged into the Pacific Ocean. The expedition that accomplished this perilous work is known asthe Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804. Merriweather Lewis.
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