NHVW AND EHNLARGED EDITION OF
RiICHARDSON’S
“BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI.”
BROUGUT FORWARD TO THE SUMMER OF 1869, DESCRIBING
THE OLD WEST AS IT WAS, and THE NEW WEST AS IT IS,
FROM THE GREAT BIVER TO THE GREAT OCEAN. 620 LARGE OCTAVO PACES.—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. £¢ gives every Station on the road, Distances apttrt, and suck other important Statisties as render it invaluable to ail.
All other proposed Rajlroad Routes t the Pacific are found upon its map, and are dnly eunsidered and explained. All sibjeets connected with these reads are tully written Up.
This work gives graphic accounts of the Progress of die Western helf of our con- tinent, and the most romantic, stirring, and picturesque incidents in its history.
OF MORMONISM AND POLYGAMY IN UTAH,
With fine Iilustrations af Life in Salt Lake city, of Brigham Young, his Wives, Children, Residences, &e., &e.
Of the creat NATURAL CURIOSITIES, of which there are more in Western America than on all the glohe beside: among which are the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas; Pictured Rocks; Lakes among the Clonds; huwlreds of Mineral Springs; Great Salt Lake and its Basin; the Snake Hiver Cataract of Idaho; the Great Falls of the Missouri; the nnapproached Scenery of Columbia Hiver; the boundless Foreats and beautifn) Puget oun of far Washington Territory ; Vike’s FPeak ; Loug’s Peak; Mount Shasta, Mount Hood, Monnt Rainer; the Gersers, Big Tree Groves, and the stapendons Yosemite Valley of California.
lt. deseribes and gives views of THE BIG CANYON OF THE COLORADO RIVER, 500 miles long, with the incredible journey of James White through it, upon aralt, oowupying 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 thonsands 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, inerease of Population, number of acres of Public Land, value of same, surrounding Markets, with the inducements affered to settlers, can be found in.its pages. No other book extant contains one-half the in- formation an the subject contained in this.
To the Emigrant, to the Traveler, wa to all others whose interests or inclinations draw their attention westward, this book will be invaluable, treating fully of chi? part of our country, its vast and unequalled resourees, and of the comparative extent, capabilities, and availabilities of its different scetions, giving such information as can be ebtained from no other source.
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