RARE OLD WEST INDIAN PIONEER TOURIST GUIDE RAILROAD MASSACRE GOLD RUSH CIVIL WAR
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Note: Many of my patrons are scholars, historians and genealogists seeking specific information related to their research. For their convenience I include the following details directly from this book: Places and Historical Subject Matter Discussed/Illustrated in this Book (Partial Only, See Full Contents Below): Beyond the Mississippi Western Guide Book Emigrant Pioneer Frontier Exploration Explorers Scout Albert D. Richardson Thomas Nast Civil War Colfax Party Indian Wars Mormon ...Mining Gambler Soldier Mexican Colorado Rocky Mountains Pike’s Peak Great Plains California St. Louis Missouri Choctaw Cherokee Chickasaw Rio Grande El Paso New Mexico Santa Fe Denver City Colorado Mines Nevada Quartz Washington Territory Oregon Vancouver Island Columbia river Great Muddy Steamboat Races Wyandotte Kansas Lawrence Topeka Leavenworth Osawkee Delaware Shawnee Pottawatomie Osawattomie Cheyenne Hemp Region Prairie Dog Buffalo Horace Greeley Republican River Pike’s Peak Arapahoe Gregory Diggings Lynching Hanging Homicide Lynch Law Lead Mining Comanche Apache Indians Gambling Neetmok Kit Carson Pueblo Indians Aztec Ruins John Brown Emigrant Trail Pioneers Trans Continental Pony Express South Park Fort Kearney Fort Bridger Mormon Wives Great Salt Lake City Brigham Young LDS Polygamy Tornado Silver Mining Carson City Austin Nevada Sierra Sacramento Chinese Laborers Northern Pacific Railroad Puget Sound Vancouver Island Yosemite Valley Fall Inspiration Point El Capitan Mirror Lake Mariposa Grove Big Trees California Mining Fruit Orchards Vineyards Wine Great Pacific Railway Donner Party Pah Ranagat Silver Region Colorado Doherty’s Description River Big Canyon Arizona Montana Helena Fort Union Oro Fino Mine Blue Mountains Lewis and Clark War Eagle Mountain Ruby City Telegraph Steamer Day Panama Atchison Sumner St. Joseph Omaha Nebraska Kansas River Marais des Cygues Massacre Fort Scott Kickapoo Mount Shasta Davidson Chinamen Quantrell Raid The Golden Gate Sea Lions Bear Hunting Robbery of Montana Coach BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. Life and Adventure on the Prairies, Mountains, and Pacific Coast. With More Than Two Hundred Illustrations, From Photographs and Original Sketches, of the Prairies, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Mines, Cities, Indians, Trappers, Pioneers, and Great Natural Curiosities of the New States and Territories, 1857-1867. By Albert D. Richardson. Published in 1867 by American Publishing Company, New York. 9" x 6" cloth hardcover with gilt decoration. Illustrated with more than 200 cuts. 572 pages. Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photo, nice-looking, small divot in cloth at head of spine. Firm binding. Front inner hinge cracked but holding well. The text is clean and complete, some light foxing, occasional smudges. Short tear at right edge of map. Otherwise no torn, loose or missing pages. Nice example of this increasingly rare 19th-century Western guide. Price is determined according to condition and my previous auction results: Sold at auction. Description: BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI was one of the first authentic accounts of life and conditions in the new Western states. It was written to inform the American public -- particularly those with an eye towards emigrating west -- of the opportunities, risks and potential wealth awaiting those bold enough to journey beyond the Mississippi. The author, Albert D. Richardson, covered the West for more than a decade as a special newspaper correspondent, companion to Horace Greeley and member of the Colfax party. He personally visited all of the western states and territories, meeting pioneers and emigrants, Indians, Mormons, miners, gamblers, soldiers, Mexicans and many other characters who populated the region in those early days. In his writings he recorded all of the wonder of the West -- the sweeping vistas of unparalleled scenery, the mighty rivers and towering canyons, the majesty of Yosemite, and much more. But he also detailed the wilder side of Western life -- Indian hostilities and attacks, frontier justice, lynch mobs, and more. The following statement from a promotional piece written for the book in 1867 will give you a better taste for what you can expect to find in these pages: The author's long and varied experience in the little known and interesting regions of the Far West furnishes the valuable material for this GREAT WORK. In 1857, he went to Kansas, and remained two years as Special Correspondent of The Boston Journal. On the discovery of Gold at Pike's Peak, in 1859, a great rush to that region instantly followed, founding the new State of Colorado in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. With characteristic love of adventure, Mr. Richardson, with Horace Greeley, visited the new mines in one of the first coaches that ever crossed the Great Plains, and joined in a report of their yield and prospects, which was published in every part of the Union. After spending some time among buffaloes, Indians and gold-diggers, Mr. Greeley went on to California, and Mr. Richardson returned to St. Louis. Next he visited the Great Iron Mountains, and then the rich Lead Regions of Missouri -- went to Fort Smith, Arkansas -- passed into the Indian Territory, where he studied the character and habits of the civilized tribes -- the Choctaws, Cherokees and Chickasaws -- then journeyed slowly the whole length of Northern Texas, and crossed the Great Staked Plain in the Rio Grande. He visited the ancient city of El Paso, Mexico, the third settlement by Europeans on our continent, and as un-American as Constantinople itself. He went up on the Rio Grande the entire length of New Mexico, via Santa Fe. Then he picked up again, gradually worked his way along Indian trails through the mountains, through dangers of snow and hostile savages, to Denver City, Colorado. As a Tribune correspondent, he again spent the summer of 1860 in Colorado, recording its strange phases of life -- the sudden growth of cities, the terrible punishment of criminals by lynch law, Indian hostilities, etc. etc. In 1865 he accompanied "the Colfax party" among Colorado Mines, Utah Mormons, Nevada Quartz Mills, and the wonderful scenery of California, Washington Territory, Oregon and Vancouver Island. No company ever crossed the continent, meeting everywhere such enthusiastic receptions and such facilities for studying the scenery, resources and society of the Far West. After his companions returned home, Mr. Richardson revisited Utah and travelled for several months in the new, rich Territories of Montana and Idaho, and passed down the Columbia River and the North Pacific to San Francisco.In 1866, he travelled through Kansas, Nebraska, etc., revisiting the scenes of nine years before, and studying the progress and prospects of the various branches of the great Pacific Railroad, which is now employing over twenty-five-thousand laborers, who are pushing it forward from both ends. Its iron bands will soon span the continent, and the locomotive will run from ocean to ocean.These new States and Territories contain incomparably the grandest scenery in the world, and the richest resources of the American Continent. Probably no other man has spent so much time, or journeyed so extensively among them, as Mr. Richardson -- certainly no one competent to describe what he has seen. Last year his letters "From the Missouri to the Pacific" attracted general attention. To prospective emigrants and settlers in the "Far West, " this History of that vast and fertile region will prove an invaluable assistance, supplying as it does, a want long felt -- of a full, authentic and reliable guide to climate, soil, products, distances, localities, means of travel, etc., etc., with an elaborate description of its wonderful resources and undeveloped wealth. In the Preface to the book, the author himself writes: I have sought to picture a fleeting phase of our national life; not omitting its grotesque, lawless features; not concealing my admiration for the adventurous pioneers who have founded great States from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and made a new geography for the American Union. It is discreditable to Americans -- peculiarly so to those with means and leisure for traveling abroad -- that they know little of this geography; little of the greatness, richness and beauty of our national inheritance.In exhaustlessness and variety of resources, no other country on the globe equals ours beyond the Mississippi. In grand natural curiosities and wonders, all other countries combined fall far below it. Its mines, forests and prairies await the capitalist. Its dusky races, earth-monuments and ancient cities importune the antiquarian. Its cataracts, canyons, and crests woo the painter. Its mountains, minerals and stupendous vegetable productions challenge the naturalist. Its air invites the invalid, healing the system wounded by ruder climates Its society welcomes the immigrant, offering high interest upon his investment of money, brains or skill; and if need be, generous obliviousness of errors past -- a clean page to begin anew the record of his life. The themes are fruitful. The Pacific Railroad hastens toward completion. We seem on the threshold of a destiny higher and better than any nation has yet fulfilled. And the Great West is to rule us. This book also features more than 200 illustrations to complement the text, some rendered specially for this book by the nationally famous artist Thomas Nast. Other renowned artists, such as W. and A.R. Waud, supplied further illustrations. If you are interested in western emigration, pioneers, or the Far West, you will not want to miss this rare 152-year-old volume. In order to give you the most accurate description of this fascinating old book, I have provided some helpful details below, starting with a detailed summation of the Contents. For the benefit of bidders who are historians, genealogists, etc. -- and who routinely use antique books like this for specific research -- I have also prepared a summary of the illustrations. You can see some of these beautiful images for yourself further down on this page. All of this is to help you make an informed decision when bidding. I hope you'll take a few moments to have a look. Contents Are: Chapter One: Westward and westward * American wines of the West * The Great Muddy River * Scenes along the Missouri * Terrors of Missouri navigation * A story of steamboat racing * Stopping to "wood up" * 0ration by a steamboat gambler * All varieties of passengers * Arrival in Kansas City * Encountering an old acquaintance * Border ruffians in Kansas Chapter Two: A glance at Wyandotte, Kansas * How frontier cities are begun * A romantic Indian legend * A city among the rocks * On the rolling prairies * Travelers along the road * A bit of Yankee ingenuity * How Lawrence was founded * And how it was named * A scene of surpassing beauty Chapter Three: A war reminiscence * Juries and councils of the war * Origin of the Kansas troubles * Resistance of the Bogus Laws * Two characteristics of the struggle * Free state convention at Topeka * Lane's power as an orator * His physical endurance * His speech in the Convention * Other prominent speakers * Reception of a bogus assessor * A collection of first principles * History repeating itself * Casting out the vile demon Chapter Four: First visit to Leavenworth * A journey on foot * A night with a Kentucky squatter * The first landing at Sumner * Atchison, Doniphan and Geary City * A mania for speculation * Difference between fact and fancy * A real estate reaction * Rivalry of American cities * An encroaching element * Vagaries of the Missouri Chapter Five: Deadly affray at the polls * A Kansas temple of justice * A murder for money * A mob administering justice * The "man with the rope" * An exciting night scene * Mormons escaping to Kansas * The land sale at Osawkee * Border ruffian courts of justice * A Quassi declaration of war * Treason to be put down * Fallacy of the human testimony * Governor extinguished by ridicule Chapter Six: Wild fruits of the prairies * An emigrant family in camp * Rain increasing with civilization * A shrewd speculator in lumber * Within prison walls * Last treason trial in Kansas * Traveling to a convention * Neetmok * Siege of Hickory Point * A declaration by Buchanan * The ballot or the rifle * Rupture in the Democratic party * Fifteen whiskey punches Chapter Seven: Night rides on the prairies * Seeking shelter among the Indians * A night with a Delaware family * Origin of Indian appellations * The Delaware Baptist Mission * Another night's lodging * Something about the Shawnees * Pottawatomie funeral rites * Origin of some Kansas names * A little legendary lore Chapter Eight: Governor Denver makes his debut * And has a spirited reception * Wonderful election returns * To vote or not to vote * A Kansas search warrant * History of the Minnesota Scheme * "Mightier than the Sword" * General Lane receives his friends * A speech nipped in the bud * Governors plenty as blackberries Chapter Nine: An imaginary city * "What are your politics?" * Freaks of political highwaymen * Not much room left * An excitement at Lawrence * Jenkins killed by General Lane * An adventurous cat-fish * The result of mis-step * Brave father and brave son Chapter Ten: A party of peace-makers * Before a comfortable fire * A night at Osawattomie * Both sides of the question * A simple, touching story * The Great Guerrilla chieftain * One of his devoted adherents * "Catching a tartar" illustrated * A moment of excitement * Uniting to keep the peace * An address by Montgomery Chapter Eleven: Feminine smokers of tobacco * Fever and ague experiences * Perplexing usages of words * Mysterious slang phrases interpreted * Pearls and returning gold-seekers * Colonel Gilpin's early predictions * Rattlesnakes as bedfellows * Mysteries of pre-empting lands * Forms of "duplicates" and patents * "Oaths are words" * Borrowing a child * An ingenious runaway husband * A clever stratagem spoiled * Fertility of the hemp region * Republican versus Black Republican Chapter Twelve: A bit of legislative fun * Cost of kissing a chambermaid * Easy divorce in New States * Prisoners brought to Lawrence * An unfortunate Hamilton * A hard country for governors * Kidnapping of John Doy * His rescue by John Brown * Kansas tapped by the railway * The luxuries of modern travel * A little trip to Kansas Chapter Thirteen: Great stampede for the mines * The sufferings along the route * "Concord wagon" or stage-coach * St Mary's Catholic Mission * Horace Greeley taking a tour * A limited stock of groceries * A model letter of introduction * A specimen of editorial penmanship * Among the antelopes and buffaloes * A jovial prairie Micawber * Facts about the buffalo * A narrow escape from death Chapter Fourteen: Horace Greeley's widespread fame * Half a million buffaloes * The curious little prairie dog * Heatlh and strength of the savage * Overturn of the coach * A night in a Cheyenne village * Republican River under ground * First view of Pike's Peak * Inspiring presence of the mountains * Denver City in its infancy Chapter Fifteen: Starting for the Gregory diggings * Our weary and winding way * In the heart of the mountains * First reliable report of the mines * First mass meeting at Pike's Peak * Freaks of our eccentric mules * Our most extraordinary landlord * "0ur best society" in Denver * A finished specimen of a gambler * An unfailing supply of victims * The turns of fortune's wheel * Almost one of Cooper's heroes * A visit from the Arapahoe chief * A conversation with Little Raven Chapter Sixteen: Little Raven as a devotee * Indian signals - peace or hostility * Expressive features and gestures * Ho, for the mountains again! * Death from the mountain fires * Evening scenes among the miners * The Gregory diggings on Sunday * Intellectual * The Great Neosho Lead Region * Subterranean mining scenes * Mode of reducing lead ore * Villages in southwestern Missouri Chapter Seventeen: The Great Missouri from the mountains * Quarrying out the iron ore * Twenty-seven hundred fahrenheit * Warsaw's last champions - and soap * Lynching in Springfield Missouri * Effect of the war upon Missouri * Conversations with the settlers * The Great Neosho Lead region * Subterrannean mining scenes * Mode of reducing lead ore * Villages in southwestern Missouri Chapter Eighteen: Life at Fort Smith, Arkansas * Cotton picking in Louisiana * The tale of an inkstand * Experiences in a sick chamber * Entering the Indian territory * Among the Cherokees and Choctaws * Curious hereditary complexions * Novel boarding school freaks * Crinoline among Indian women * The Chickasaws lose their law Chapter Nineteen: News of Broderick Death * Frequency of homicides in Texas * The quaint Mexican cart * Stopped by the Colorado River * The fierce, untamed Comanches * Signal code among the savages * A plucky little Texan woman * On the great staked plain * A girl stolen by Comanches * A fatal fondness for pictures Chapter Twenty: Preaching easier than practice * The colonel retires disabled * First Line across the Continent * "Out West" on its travels * Peon labor in abcxs New Mexico * A Kentuckian in court * Street pictures in Mexican towns * A native Meg Merrillies * An aristocratic Castilian gathering * Sunday worship in the Cathedral Chapter Twenty-One: From El Paso to Santa Fe * Adventures with the Apaches * Consumption of red peppers * Passing through Albuquerque * Arrival in Santa Fe * Highest town in the Union * An experience at gambling * Curiosities and horrid trophies * Families of White Indians * Fascination of border life Chapter Twenty-Two: A stray printer and journalist * A ride with Kit Carson * His hair-breadth 'scapes * Hospitality of the Mexican * The victim of a biographer * All about Mexican donkeys * The Rebellion of 1847 * Curious religious customs of natives * Mexican peonage versus slavery * Among the Pueblo Indians * Their superstitions and traditions * Strange old Aztec Ruins * Geological changes in the Country Chapter Twenty-Three: From Taos to Denver, Colorado * A polyglot landlord * Before the sutler's fire * Outdoor mountain lodgings * Meeting a plucky pedestrian * An unpleasant sleeping companion * A herd of spotted antelopes * 0fferings to an invisible Deity * Another old friend * Climate and pulmonary complaints * A report of John Brown * End of summer journeyings Chapter Twenty-Four: A night with a squatter * Killed in the darkness * Reminiscences of old John Brown * Yankees, Missourians and "Cricks" * A letter from John Brown * One of John Brown's followers * An extinguishing retort * Along the emigrant road * Humors of plains travel * Our pioneers and self-government * An illustration of lynch law * Gordon's capture, trial and death * Wonderful tenacity of life Chapter Twenty-Five: A summer day in Denver * Best house in the neighborhood * A breakfast party of rovers * Newspapers, churches, hotels, stores * Mint, express office and coach * Curious characters from everywhere * A stroll down Blake Street * An editor and a count * A grand mountain panorama Chapter Twenty-Six: Little Raven loses a treasure * A dentist practices strategy * A hard country for editors * A night at Apollo Theater * Visit to Gregory Diggings * Punishing a precocious youth * In the great South Park * A memorable summer excursion * The interesting monument region * Music in underground chambers Chapter Twenty-Seven: Starting up the mountains * Scenes of picturesque beauty * Nature's terrible convulsions * Dismal and dreary situation * Clouds breaking once more * Fears of fever and delirium * A1l vegetation left behind * On the crest at last * An indescribably grand view * Four territories - four great rivers * Provisions alarmingly scarce * Effects of the five-days' trip * Good treatment for invalids * The trans-continental Pony Express Chapter Twenty-Eight: Starting westward again * Indian murders and depredations * Tornado near Fort Kearney * Press dispatches on the wing * One dollar for a newspaper * Grasshoppers miraculously destroyed * Ranch eggs versus state eggs * Lesson of mountain scenery * Gregory Diggings at six years old * A curious claim controversy * Growth and resources of Colorado Chapter Twenty-Nine: Virginia Dale - Lover's Leap * Smelling the battle afar off * Indians a little too near * Wagon three inches too wide * Chruch Butte and Fort Bridger * An old trappers' story * Three Mormon wives - all sisters * First view of Salt Lake Valley * Speeches and responses - Hot Springs * Scenery of wonderful beauty * Eight days among the Mormons * Miracles of the telegraph * Frank discussion with Brigham Young Chapter Thirty: The city of the future * All the Jews are Gentiles * Personal description of Brigham * An hour in Brigham's school * Thirty wives and sixty children * Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea * Sunday service of the Mormons * Brigham's Great Theater * Dwellers among the mountain tops * Sagacity of the Mormon leaders * Practical workings of polygamy * One wife too many * Assassinations in Salt Lake City * Early trials of the pioneers * How the problem will be solved Chapter Thirty-One: From Salt Lake City westward * Eight miles in thirty minutes * Irrigating the sandy deserts * Hardships and perils of explorers * Features of Austin Nevada * First view of Sierra Nevadas * A city set upon a hill * Doherty’s description * Excitements in mining stocks * Richest silver mine ever found * Curious inventions of miners * Four hundred feet under ground * Ores sent abroad for reduction * Five hundred million per annum Chapter Thirty-Two: Carson City and Carson Valley * Earliest officers of Nevada * Lake Tahoe on Sierra Nevadas * Seven thousand feet above sea level * A legend of stage driving * Thril1ing ride down the Sierras * Reaching the locomotive again * Sacramento, arrival in San Francisco * A startling catalogue of events * Delightful days in Placerville * The rare charm of California * Chinamen on the Pacific coast * Among the hydraulic miners * The wonderful power of water Chapter Thirty-Three: Warm climate of Pacific Coast * Scene of a California story * The widow of John Brown * Spelling "Yreka Bakery" backwards * Reminiscences of General Grant * Noteworthy points on the road * Plentifulness of babies * Portland Street and river scenes * Excursion up the Columbia * Lincoln Grant and Sheridan * Curious dalles of the Columbia * A bit of oratorical fun * Northern Pacific Railroad wanted * A couple of "little stories" Chapter Thirty-Four: A frontier Supreme Court * Oregon pioneers govern themselves * Terrible revenge of the savages * The rich resources of Oregon * A little more Oregon cider * Forests of Washington territory * A strange forest village * The America of the future * Beautiful scenery of Puget Sound * Under the British flag * Features of Vancouver Island * American rhetoric among the Britons * Fate of the Brother Jonathan Chapter Thirty-Five: Discovery of Yosemite Valley * View from Inspiration Point * Riding down the Zigzags * Hutchings and his household * Trees and wa1ls of the Valley * Yosemite Fall - Highest in the world * El Capitan; Mount King; Mount Colfax * Bridal Veil; Vernal; Mirror Lake * The wonderful round rainbow * Grandest scenery on the globe * Eight thousand feet above sea level * Visiting the Mariposa Big Trees * Forty feet in diameter * A forest Ingomar and Parthenia * Grizzly giant - 34 feet in diameter * A grand national summer resort Chapter Thirty-Six: Invited to celestial hospitalities * Sitting down to the banquet * More than three hundred dishes * Extracts from the Bill-of-fare * "Wives won't come" * Mr Colfax and his journey * My friends homeward bound * California politics as a study * Features of California society * American wit and humor * A string of California stories Chapter Thirty-Seven: The raw winds of San Francisco * A climate stimulating like wine * Fires and earthquakes unavailing * Prejudicd against the Chinese * Mission Mills; Church; Yosemite views * California quartz mining and farming * Grain, vegetables and fruit trees * Mammoth productions of California * Oranges, vineyards and wines * An immense private enterprise * The San Francisco newspapers * A bit of historical record * Half an hour in the mint * The Great Pacific Railway Chapter Thirty-Eight: Excursion on the Pacific Railroad * Twelve thousand Chinese laborers * Horrible fate of the Donner party * Engulfed by a snow slide * Establishing the railway route * Empty travelers fearless of robbers * Fellow passengers on the desert * Once more in Salt Lake City * A "destroying angel" on journalists * The Salt Lake poetess * A few of her early stanzas * Pah Ranagat Silver region * Colorado River and Big Canyon * The novelties of Arizona Chapter Thirty-Nine: From Salt Lake to Montana * On waters of the Pacific * Hanged up his own gallows * Virginia Montana and Alder Gulch * Scenes during the Flush Times * An hour in the hurdy-gurdy * Standing astride the Missouri * A visit to Helena * Curious painting of Fort Union * Pitched from a stage coach * Costly newspaper publishing * Quaint Indian translations * Vigilantes administering justice * Quartz on the brain * A great future for Montana Chapter Forty: Lewis and Clark's great expedition * Explorers given up as dead * Build them a monument! * "Help yourself to the mustard" * Unerring instinct of beavers * Every man's home his castle * A most wonderful mirage * Neetmok * Visiting Great Shoshone Falls * Enormous portraits of lava * Fascination of the deep Gulf * A bloodless Idaho war * Unattractive state of society * The Chinook jargon * Scenes in a great quartz mill Chapter Forty-One: A visit to Owyhee * Ruby City - War Eagle Mountain * Grinding quartz versus stamping * "Italian summers and Syrian winters" * Into the Oro Fino mine * The great Poorman war * Much capital recklessly squandered * Agricultural capacity of Idaho * Robberies of mail coach * Among the Blue Mountains * A night at Meacham's * Down the Beautiful Columbia * Lewis and Clark's old camping ground * Our quartz regions full of interest Chapter Forty-Two: The telegraph always a miracle * Ingenious newspaperial strategy * A story of the Rebellion * Healdsburg and Foss-station * The roar of the geysers * Pluton River and Devil's Canyon * Grotto * Devil's Washbowl and kitchen * Witches' Caldron; Crater; Vent Holes * The wonders of California Chapter Forty-Three: Steamer day in San Francisco * Finest vessels in the world * Captains' wives not admitted * Gull, albatross and porpoise * A lazy and luxurious existence * Six hours in Acapulco * Earthquakes - a droll war * No vehicles nor wagon roads * Wonderful beauty of the nights * Arrival at Panama Chapter Forty-Four: Native complexions and costumes * The old cathedral at Panama * A black proverbial philosopher * Lignumvitae sleepers; Cement poles * Richest vegetation in the world * Along the Panama Railway * Twelve hours in Aspinwall * Discomforts on the Rolling Deep * Experiences of the passengers * Night in a heavy gale * End of eight months' wanderings Chapter Forty-Five: A ride through Illinois * Atchison, Sumner, Leavenworth * Railway ride to Topeka * A political convention again * Doherty’s description * Curious retributive justice * Omnivorous grasshoppers * Farming by machinery * Women voting on school matters * Lawrence; the old landmarks * Paola, the border counties * One cent per year * Kansas as a farming state * Beautify the dwellings * Peace hath her victories Chapter Forty-Six: From St. Joseph to Omaha * A beautiful town site * Street scenes in Omaha * An original American * Out on the Pacific Railroad * Two and a half miles per day * The three Kansas forks * 25, 000 men employed * An experience of Lewis and Clark * A trip across Iowa * Around the world by railway Illustrations Include: A map of the region between the Mississippi and the Pacific, drawn on wood by Tudor Horton, engraved by Fay and Cox * Frontispiece - "Beyond the Mississippi" by Thomas Nast * The gray goose quill * A snagged steamer * The grade in Kansas City * Lawrence, Kansas in 1857 * Waukarusa * Mud fort * Capture of Colonel Titus * Portrait of James H Lane * A prohibitory law * City of New Babylon on paper * City of New Babylon in fact * Moving accident by flood and field * "You can't hang me but once" * Law and order men * Indians traveling * Family encampment * Governor Robinson's trial for treason * A fire in the rear * A comfortable slumber * A night in the cabin of four miles (Nast) * Indian mode of burial * Voting in Kickapoo * "A scene like this" * Old Kaintuck * "About full here" * Navigation of the Kansas River * The Marais des Cygues Massacre * The executive supporting the judiciary * Portrait of James Montgomery * A peace convention at Fort Scott, Kansas * Returned Pike's Peakers * A morning caller * A habitable dwelling * A house twelve by fourteen * A bona fide residence * End of the Bogus Laws * "What's in a name?" * An abolition emissary * The dead brother * "Grocery" * Horace Greeley's manuscript * "Busted, by thunder" * Langtrea Pass * Narrow escape from the buffaloes * Portrait of Horace Greeley * A change of base * Republican River * Climbing into the mountains * Gregory Gold Diggings in Colorado, May, 1859 * Misplaced confidence * Seven views in Denver, Colorado, 1859 * A visit from Little Raven * Burned to death * Flapjacks * Going into the mines * Coming out * Missouri iron miners at work * Missouri lead miners * Down the shaft * Lead miners under ground * The church-going bell * Governor Walker's residence, Indian territory * A counter-irritant * A charmed line * A Mexican cart * Comanche greeting * A morning amusement * The mirage * Indians surprised and defeated in Limpia Canyon * The Spanish bayonet * Street scenes in El Paso, old Mexico * A Mexican fandango * "Journey of the dead man" * A Mexican grist mill * A Mexican farm house * Gambling in Santa Fe * Portrait of Kit Carson * Mexican carriages * Hitching a donkey * Penitentes lashing themselves * The Taos pueblo * My rueful Mexican host * First view of Colorado City * The Fontaine Qui Bouille * The author arrives in Denver * John Brown * A letter from John Brown * "Do they miss me at home?" * An armed neutrality * "Our house" in Denver * Waiting for letters * Indian village in Denver, in 1860 * A Rocky Mountain scene * A voluntary retraction * The Arastra * Pike's Peak, from forty miles northeast * Scene in the Monument region * Gateway to the Garden of the Gods * Climbing Pike's Peak * Under the Shelving Rock * Neetmok Rock * On the summit * "Lincoln is elected!" * Light artillery * A picture of Whoa! * Denver architecture in 1867 * An honest miner * Indian attack at North Platte crossing * An outside passenger * Snow-balling in June * Emigration Canyon * Great Salt Lake City, Utah, 1867 * Brigham preaching to his congregation * Portrait of Brigham Young * Lion house and bee-hive house * "Why, I am your wife!" * The Great Salt Lake * An early Mormon coin * Egan Canyon and the first quartz mill * Virginia, Nevada, and Mount Davidson * The crushed timbers * On the ladder * Portrait of Louis McLane * Montgomery Street, San Francisco, July 4, 1865 * Down the Sierra Nevadas by stagecoach in 1865 * A group of celestials * Hydraulic mining * Mount Shasta * Portland, Oregon, July 4, 1865 * Sheridan's first battle ground, Columbia River * A midnight reception to speaker Colfax * A portrait of Albert Bierstadt * Mount Rainier from Puget Sound * "Lightning, " an Indian belle * Government Street, Victoria, Vancouver Island * Going into Yosemite Valley * Diagram of Yosemite Valley * El Capitan * Yosemite Falls, highest in the world * Vernal Fall and Round Rainbow * Bed and board * Riding through a tree trunk * The grizzly giant, 34 feet in diameter * Invitation to a Chinese dinner * Chinese dinner in San Francisco * Schuyler Colfax * Portrait of Governor Bross * Portrait of Samuel Bowles * "You get!" * "You bet!" * San Francisco from the Bay in 1847 * San Francisco in 1849 * Interior of Mission Church * California fruits and vegetables * California cactus * An early California coin * Portrait of Leland Stanford * Chinamen building Pacific Railroad, Sierras * Summit crossing of Sierra Nevadas * Reflection in Donner Lake * The Donner Party in 1846 * Portrait of the Salt Lake Poetess * A section of Big or Grand Canyon, Colorado River * A view in Big Canyon, Colorado * Six wives * A prolific country * The hurdy-gurdy house, Virginia Montana * Virginia City, Montana * $2000 nugget * A man of nerve * A state of suspense * "Speciments, Mass'r" * Great Falls of Missouri River * Doherty's description * Robbery of the Montana coach * Utah Indian prisoners * Shoshonee or Snake River, Cataract, Idaho * Evidences of civilization * Interior of abcxs quartz mill * Ruby City, Owyhee, Idaho * Examining the ledges, War Eagle Mountain * Fort Baker and Poorman Mine * Surveying in Humboldt Pass * The Noble Red Man * Heavy on one wheel * Mount Hood, Oregon * Flathead Indians * Madrona tree, Healdsburg, California * Along the Hog-back * Diagram of Devil's Canyon * Witches' Caldron, California geysers * Sea lions, San Francisco Harbor * The Golden Gate, outlet of San Francisco Bay * A school of porpoises * On the Isthmus between Panama and Aspinwall * Transferring the specie at Aspinwall * "Only a headache" * Delaware Street, Leavenworth, 1867 * Among the grasshoppers * Lawrence Kansas after the Quantrell raid * A painted darkey * A part of Omaha in 1867 * Portrait of George Francis Train * Building the Pacific Railroad in Nebraska * Portrait of Thomas C. Durant * Bear hunting sixty years ago Illustrated title page: Two-page map: Remember folks, this is an 1867 First Edition. This book is 152 years old. Check out all the RARE ANTIQUE BOOKS ABOUT THE INDIAN WARS, CIVIL WAR, REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE OLD WEST THAT I'M OFFERING ON EBAY THIS WEEK! Please be sure to add me to your List of Favorite Sellers! Don't miss out on any of my latest listings. Click here to sign up for the NEETMOK NEWSLETTER! Winner pays for media mail shipping in the United States of America. INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: All international bidders must pay by PayPal. © 2001-2019 by eBay seller neetmok. NEETMOK BOOKS IS A REGISTERED MEMBER OF EBAY’S VERO PROGRAM. Unauthorized use of Item Description Text or Images is a violation of eBay rules, as posted by eBay: "No Copying Allowed! When you prepare your listings you generally should use only material (text, photographs, etc.) and trademarks/names that you created or own yourself or licensed from the owners." 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