Item Detail
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F 594 .B78 1973
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Our new West. Record of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean...
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Bowles, Samuel
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1869
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Our new West. Record 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 of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia; 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. Devotes several chapters to Mormonism, p. [207]–70.