The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . the band of explorers, con-sisting of about four hundred men, many of them cavaliers of distinc-tion and of the best blood of Spain, left Compostell
The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . the band of explorers, con-sisting of about four hundred men, many of them cavaliers of distinc-tion and of the best blood of Spain, left Compostella, a point on thecoast of Mexico nearly due west from the capital, and commenced theirjourney. For a long time they kept near the shores of the PacificOcean, then made their way back into the country. On the Gila River,Coronado found thickly-populated settlements, but no evidence of greatwealth. Continuing his march in a north-easterly direction, in fifteendays he reached Cibola, but, instead of the fabulous wealth that had beenreported, he found a town of about two hundred inhabitants, havingbut little knowledge of any gold and silver treasure. These people wereprobably the ancestors of the present tribe of Zuni Indians. Continuingin a general north-easterly direction, he crossed the Rio Grande del Norte,and entered the San Luis Valley, making his way out over the Sangrede Christo Pass to the plains of Southern Colorado; thence southward. CLEAK (KEEK CANON, COLORADO. Colorado. yy to Mexico, returning with a record of disappointment that resulted in anabandonment of all effort in that direction. Up to the year 1600 the territory comprised within the present limitsof Colorado was supposed to belong to Spain, but in that year Franceclaimed possession. During the seventeenth century at least three expe-ditions were sent into these vast and unknown regions. In 1769 theprovince was ceded to Spain by France, but in 1800 the French regainedcontrol, keeping it until 1803, when by treat
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