NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION
OF
RICHARDSON'S
“BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI.”
BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE SUMMER OF 1869,
DESCRIBING
THE OLD WEST AS IT WAS, and THE NEW WEST AS IT IS,
FROM THE GREAT RIVER TO THE GREAT OCEAN.
620 LARGE OCTAVO PAGES.—216 ILLUSTRATIONS,
and the most Minute and Accurate Map of the country in existence.
1857 to 1869.
THE
OPENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD,
its Origin, Progress, and Completion, together with all the Great Changes in the
country incident thereto, are fully and faithfully described. It gives every Station on
the road, Distances apart, and such other Important Statistics as render it invaluable to all.
All other proposed Railroad Routes to the Pacific are found upon its map, and are
duly considered and explained. All subjects connected with these roads are fully
written up.
This work gives graphic accounts of the Progress of the Western half of our continent,
and the most romantic, stirring, and picturesque incidents in its history.
OF MORMONISM AND POLYGAMY IN UTAH,
With fine Illustrations of Life in Salt Lake city, of Brigham Young, his Wives,
Children, Residences, &c., &c.
Of the great NATURAL CURIOSITIES, of which there are more in Western
America than on all the globe beside: among which are the Rocky Mountains and
the Sierra Nevadas; Pictured Rocks; Lakes among the Clouds; hundreds of Mineral
Springs; Great Salt Lake and its Basin; the Snake River Cataract of Idaho; the
Great Falls of the Missouri; the unapproached Scenery of Columbia River; the
boundless Forests and beautiful Puget Sound of far Washington Territory; Pike's
Peak; Long's Peak; Mount Shasta, Mount Hood, Mount Rainer; the Geysers, Big
Tree Groves, and the stupendous Yosemite Valley of California.
It describes and gives views of THE BIG CANYON OF THE COLORADO
RIVER, 500 miles long, with the incredible journey of James White through it,
upon a raft, occupying 14 days, during 7 of which White was without food; of THE
DISCOVERY AND OPENING UP of the
NEW WHITE PINE SILVER REGION OF NEVADA,
which is attracting thousands of emigrants and causing the wildest excitement ever
known in our mining history.
COMPLETE STATISTICS OF EACH STATE AND TERRITORY,
in Gold and Silver, and other Products, increase of Population, number of acres of
Public Land, value of same, surrounding Markets, with the inducements offered to
settlers, can be found in its pages. No other book extant contains one-half the information
on the subject contained in this.
To the Emigrant, to the Traveler, and to all others whose interests or inclinations
draw their attention westward, this book will be invaluable, treating fully of this part
of our country, its vast and unequalled resources, and of the comparative extent,
capabilities, and availabilities of its different sections, giving such information as can
be obtained from no other source.
CONDITIONS.
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