The West, from the census of 1880 : a history of the industrial, commercial, social, and political development of the states and territories of the West from 1800 to 1880 . TO THE PIONEERS OF THE WEST, BY WHOSE COURAGE, ENERGY, PERSEVERANCE AND FAITH A WILDERNESS HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO A FRUITFUL LAND SO VAST, SO FREE AND SO FAIR, THIS VOLXJMIES IS RE SFECXK^ULL Y ©cbtcateb By the Author. <l INTEODUCTIOK It is the aim to present in this volume a concise andaccurate history of the progress of the States lying between theAlleghany and the Rocky Mountains and north of the Ohioriver, Arkansas,
The West, from the census of 1880 : a history of the industrial, commercial, social, and political development of the states and territories of the West from 1800 to 1880 . TO THE PIONEERS OF THE WEST, BY WHOSE COURAGE, ENERGY, PERSEVERANCE AND FAITH A WILDERNESS HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO A FRUITFUL LAND SO VAST, SO FREE AND SO FAIR, THIS VOLXJMIES IS RE SFECXK^ULL Y ©cbtcateb By the Author. <l INTEODUCTIOK It is the aim to present in this volume a concise andaccurate history of the progress of the States lying between theAlleghany and the Rocky Mountains and north of the Ohioriver, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory, of the three Statesof the Pacific Slope, and of all the Territories of the UnitedStates except Alaska, from the beginning of the presentcentury to the close of 1880. This vast portion of our country,covering an area of over two million square miles, and nowcontaining nearly two-fifths of tlie entire population of theUnited States, was at the beginning of the nineteenth centurya wild and almost unexplored region. To-day, the WesternStates and Territories have a population of nearly twentymillions; produce all our surplus meat and grain, an
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