. Our western empire, or, The new West beyond the Mississippi : the latest and most comprehensive work on the states and territories west of the Mississippi : containing the fullest and most complete description, from official and other authentic sources, of the geography, geology and natural history (with abundant incidents and adventures), the climates, soil, agriculture, the mineral and mining products, the crops, and herds and flocks, the social condition, educational and religious progress, and future prospects of the whole region lying between the Mississippi and Pacific Ocean : to which
. Our western empire, or, The new West beyond the Mississippi : the latest and most comprehensive work on the states and territories west of the Mississippi : containing the fullest and most complete description, from official and other authentic sources, of the geography, geology and natural history (with abundant incidents and adventures), the climates, soil, agriculture, the mineral and mining products, the crops, and herds and flocks, the social condition, educational and religious progress, and future prospects of the whole region lying between the Mississippi and Pacific Ocean : to which is added the various routines, and prices of passage and transportation for emigrants thither, the laws, regulations and provisions for obtaining lands from the national or state government of railroads, counsel as to locations and procuring lands, crops most profitable for culture, mining operations, and the lastest processes for the reduction of gold and silver, the exercise of trades or professions, and detailed descriptions of each state ad territory, with full information concerning Manitoba, British Columbia, and those regions in the Atlantic States adapted to settlement, by those who do not wish to go west, and statistics of crops, areas, rainfall, etc. . rs of considerable magnitude. The RioGrande del Norte rises in the San Juan Range, where it inter-laces with the sources of the Gunnison, Dolores and San Juanrivers, and flowing east-southeast receives numerous tribu-taries from San Juan, Hinsdale, Rio Grande, Saguache, Conejos,and Costilla counties, turns south near Alamosa and passes outof the State very nearly midway of its southern border. The western slope of the Great Divide is drained wholly(except for some small streams which fall into the San Luislakes) by the principal affluents which go to make up the RioColorado of the West. All of these except the main streamand some of the tributaries of the Green river have their sourcesin the Rocky Mountains of Colorado
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