Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . The Far West as Understood in 1818 William Rector. Surveyor for Missouri and Illinois3 north to 52°. but in this reproduction from Warrens Memoir it barely jSee Bonneville Map at p. 24 and Map at p. 89 PACIFIC R R EXP &. SURVEYS LT VAKFffiH>t;fFirnTB III. Knowledge of the Far West in 1826 By A Finley, PhiladelphiaTimpanogos, and Rio Buenaventura. Lake Salado is Sevier Lake, and Lake Tlmpanogos is Great Sail Lakep. 8g, whi
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . The Far West as Understood in 1818 William Rector. Surveyor for Missouri and Illinois3 north to 52°. but in this reproduction from Warrens Memoir it barely jSee Bonneville Map at p. 24 and Map at p. 89 PACIFIC R R EXP &. SURVEYS LT VAKFffiH>t;fFirnTB III. Knowledge of the Far West in 1826 By A Finley, PhiladelphiaTimpanogos, and Rio Buenaventura. Lake Salado is Sevier Lake, and Lake Tlmpanogos is Great Sail Lakep. 8g, which were the first to show the correct topography, though Gallatins, 1S36, gave much of it right Mythical Rivers 21 were, first the Great Plains with an average elevation abovethe sea of about two thousand feet, considered by Pike,Long, and other prominent men of the early quarter of thenineteenth century a Great American Desert, which theybelieved would forever form an effective barrier betweenthe settlements of the United States and those of desert has vanished; but in the beginning the plainsactually offered a considerable barrier, the first of six, againstexploration. They rolled away to the beckoning West, mileupon mile like a mighty petrified sea, to the very foothillsof the second repelling barrier, the imposing, ponderouschain of the Rocky Mountains extending northerly andsoutherly across the heart o
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