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 . rt Meade 28 Fort Robinson 108 Fort Laramie 143 Fort Pierre 160 Sidney 225 Cheyenne 260 Bismarck 275 BLACK HILLS ALTITUDES. ELEVATION ABOVE THE SEA O
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 . rt Meade 28 Fort Robinson 108 Fort Laramie 143 Fort Pierre 160 Sidney 225 Cheyenne 260 Bismarck 275 BLACK HILLS ALTITUDES. ELEVATION ABOVE THE SEA OF PROMINENT CITIES, MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, ETC. Feet. | Feet. Inyan Kara Peak 6,500 Bare Butte 4,800 Floral Valley . Terrys Peak 7,200 Custers Peak 6,750 Devils Tower 5,100 Crooks Monument 7,600 I Rapid City 3,175 250 THE GREAT WEST. Feet. Crook City 3,725 Eochford (estimated) 4,500 Harneys Peak 7,440 Belle Fourche 3,734 Castle Creek Valley 6,136 Dodge Peak 7,300 Feet. Warrens Peak 6,900 Crow Peaks 6,200 Deadwood 4,425 Eoekerville 4,125 Pactola (estimated) 4,000 Custer City POPULATION OF THE CITIES AND SETTLEMENTS. Population. Deadwood 6,000 Golden Gate 700 Lead City 2,500 Eoekerville 600 Eochford 600 Sturgis City 300 Sheridan 200 Tigerville 200 2,000 Central City Gayville 800 Eapid City 500 Crook City 500 Custer City 400 Spearfish City 250 Hill City 200 Galena 250 Pactola, Hayward and other settlements 2,500 Total 18,000. MINNESOTA. THE Indian name for Minnesota is sky-colored water, in allusion tothe river which gives its name to the State. Its length north andsouth is 375 miles, and its average breadth 250. It embraces in area83,531 square miles, or 54,760,000 acres. To form an idea of the size,compare it with other States and countries. It is larger than the NewEngland States and Maryland combined, and nearly as large as Ohio andPennsylvania together. The acreage of arable land already surveyed,exclusive of the mineral and pine regions, is as large as the en
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