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 ... 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.

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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 ... 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.

Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Hartford, Ct., Hartford publishing co.; New York, J.D. Dennison [etc., etc.] 1869.

SUMMARY
American Memory note: Bowles, editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, was one of a party that travelled across the Continent in the summers of 1865 and 1866 to explore the Western lands. Several books resulted from the trips. The detailed subtitle of Bowles's book shows clearly how at the time interests in natural and man-made wonders and in exploitable resources were combined. Bowles sees the railroads as the key that will unlock the region. In addition to his enthusiasm for the West, Bowles urges the preservation of Niagara Falls (probably influenced by Frederick Law Olmsted, whom he met in Yosemite Valley) and of regions of the Adirondacks and Maine (pp. 384-85).

SUBJECTS
West, The--Description and travel--1860-1880.

MEDIUM
xx, [21]-524 p. incl. plates, map. front. (ports.) 23 cm. .

CALL NUMBER
F594 .B78

DIGITAL ID
amrvg vg32

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