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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.
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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.
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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
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PERSONAL HISTORY OF
ULYSSES §. GRANT,
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By ALBERT D. RICHARDSON,
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Written with the knowledge, consent, and full concurrence of the illustrious Generat.
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' THE SECRET SERVICE, The Field, The Dungeon and The Escape.
By ALBERT D. RICHARDSON, (Tribune Correspondent.)
The above work embraces the entire narrative of Mr. RICHARDSON’S Unparalled Experience for Four Years.
1. Traveling throngh the South in the sceret service of the 772dune nat the outbrosk of the War,
Il, Witk our arusica and fleets buth Bast and Weat, during the fisst twa years of the Rebellion,
Ti, His thrilling eujture while rnuning the batteries oa the Misslsslppl River at Vieksbarg, where niore than half Lis companiina were cither killed or woundud,
I¥. Lffa confinement lor pwenty months in seven diferent Rebel Priaens.
¥. Tis escape sud atmost Mirucnlons Journey by night, of ucarly 400 miles, sided hy Negroes and Union Mountaineers of North Curctinu ang Tenneasee throngh the enemy's cauntry to our lines.
it sbounds in stirring events never before given w Lhe public, und coutnins minute dewils of the escape, which have not yee appeared, including @ dgseription «f DAN ELLIS, the famous Union Pilot, ard tie “UNKNOWN GUIDE,” in the Peron ofa Young Lady, who piloted Mr. Richardson and his comrades by night out of a Hebel ambush.
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