Our western empire, or, The new West beyond the Mississippi - the latest and most comprehensive work on the states and territories west of the Mississippi - containing the fullest and most complete (14757951274)

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Title: Our western empire, or, The new West beyond the Mississippi : the latest and most comprehensive work on the states and territories west of the Mississippi : containing the fullest and most complete description, from official and other authentic sources, of the geography, geology and natural history (with abundant incidents and adventures), the climates, soil, agriculture, the mineral and mining products, the crops, and herds and flocks, the social condition, educational and religious progress, and future prospects of the whole region lying between the Mississippi and Pacific Ocean : to which is added the various routines, and prices of passage and transportation for emigrants thither, the laws, regulations and provisions for obtaining lands from the national or state government of railroads, counsel as to locations and procuring lands, crops most profitable for culture, mining operations, and the lastest processes for the reduction of gold and silver, the exercise of trades or professions, and detailed descriptions of each state ad territory, with full information concerning Manitoba, British Columbia, and those regions in the Atlantic States adapted to settlement, by those who do not wish to go west, and statistics of crops, areas, rainfall, etc.
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Bradley, Garretson & Co. Columbus, O. : W. Garretson & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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steam and hot water; though almost everywhere in the Park,and outside its boundaries in many directions, are vast beds andstreams of ancient lava, showing how terrific was the former in-tensity of the volcanic forces, whose declining activity now onlysuffices to produce steam and spout boiling water, instead, asanciently, of melting down into indistinguishable ruin the ada-mantine framework of the continent, and spreading it, as a foam-ing torrent of fiery devastation, over the surface of mountainsand plains for an area of scores of thousands of square miles. The Park is not readily accessible from Wyoming; on its east-ern side the Wind River Range presents an impassable barrierof lofty walls of rock, through which none of the exploring partieshave ever been able to find a practicable pass even for packanimals; on the southern side a stage road extends from GreenRiver City to Camp Brown, a distance of 155 miles; thence atolerable wagon road exists to the head of Wind river, a distance
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iLL^ OF MIL VKI.I.iAVsTuM:—(:. ■■■ !/ Yellowstone). APPROACHES TO THE PARK. 1231 of 110 miles more; but from thence to Yellowstone lake, a dis-tance of fifty miles, is a difficult trail, which can be traversed onlyon foot with pack animals and with considerable danger. Onthe west side, by way of the Utah and Northern Railway, fromOgden, Utah, stopping at Pleasant Valley, there is a wagon roadby way of Red Rock and Henry lakes, which reaches the UpperGeyser basin by about sixty-five miles travel. A still betterroute is that by the Utah and Northern Railway to the vicinityof Bozeman, Montana, from thence a wagon road by way ofBotelers Ranche, only about thirteen miles distant from the Park,with a good wagon road to Gardiners river and the mammothHot Springs. Before the close of the present year (1881), theNorthern Pacific Railway will undoubtedly be completed to FortEllis or beyond, and probably its branch to the Park, so that thisgreat wonderland will then be for the first time