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Our new West : records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean ; over the plains--over the mountains--through the great interior basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and down the Pacific Coast ; with details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines, business, social life, progress, and prospects of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia : including a full description of the Pacific Railroad ; and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese ; with map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations
- Title
- Our new West : records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean ; over the plains--over the mountains--through the great interior basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and down the Pacific Coast ; with details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines, business, social life, progress, and prospects of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia : including a full description of the Pacific Railroad ; and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese ; with map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations / by Samuel Bowles.
- Author
- Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878
- Publication
- Hartford, CT : Hartford Publishing Company ; New York : J.D. Dennison ; Chicago : J.A. Stoddard ; Augusta, Ga. : E. Nebhut, 1869.
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- Description
- 524 pages : frontispiece (portraits), illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- Details the author's journeys and experiences across the North American continent in the summers of 1865 and 1866, exploring the Western United States.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Travel writing.
- Récits de voyages.
- Indexed In (note)
- Smith, C.W. Pacific Northwest (3rd ed.)
- Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.)
- System Details (note)
- Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Binding (note)
- Blind and gold stamped, brown, sand grain, publishers' cloth binding; all edges lightly speckled.
- Contents
- Introductory letters / from Vice-President [Schuyler] Colfax and Governor [William] Bross -- Introductory chapter: Our new West: Its extent and importance, and four great divisions ; The cordilleras of South America and their progress thorough North America ; The first great division, the plains ; The second, the Rocky Mountains ; The third, the Great Interior Basin ; The fourth, the Sierra Nevadas and the Pacific Coast ; The characteristics of each ; The promise of the book -- Over the plains by stage -- The Pacific Railroad -- Colorado : its mountains and parks -- Life among the mountains -- The Middle Park and the Ute Indians -- Mountain climbing and camp life -- An Indian "scare" and the Indians -- The mines and the farms of Colorado -- By stage into Utah -- A week in Salt Lake City -- Men and women, or polygamy, in Utah -- The future of the Mormons -- Through the desert basin by stage -- The mines of Nevada -- Over the mountains to the ocean -- California -- San Francisco -- Country excursions in California -- The Yo semite [Yosemite] Valley and the big trees -- The Chinese -- Mining in California -- Farming in California -- Oregon, Washington, British Columbia -- The Columbia River, Idaho, Montana -- Sandwich Islands, Colorado Canyon -- Home by the isthmus.
- LCCN
- rc 01001503
- OCLC
- 1627933
- ocm01627933
- SCSB-280841
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library