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Title: Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Clampitt, John Wesley, 1839-
Subjects: Telegraph Pacific railroads Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Chicago New York Philadelphia San Francisco : Belford, Clarke & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Admiral Seymour, com-manding the British man-of-war Collingswood, arrived, but too lateto execute the orders of his Government. California became ours firstby seizure and occupation and subsequently by the terms of thetreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This gave us the entire seaboard fromthe 49° of latitude to that of 24° 20 latitude, and all of the territorywest of Kansas and south of Dakota to the Pacific Ocean notembraced in the Louisiana purchase of 1803. Beginning with the small and disputed territory on the Pacificcoast, through one of the waves of destiny that roll over a nationshistory and mold its events, the Mexican War added not alone thestar of Texas but the constellation that illumines the Pacifics shore.Far back in the century was the dream of Jefferson, and the footprintsof his adventurous pioneers were seen on the sands unwashed by Time.Between the Missouri and the coast lay what our fathers believed tobe an impenetrable desert, where dwelt savage tribes feasting on human
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659 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. GG1 flesh. Through desert and wilderness and gorge and sunless canon,across mad rivers, leaping wildly over rock and bowlder, and thenceover the crags of lofty mountains, seeking a passage through theirrocky walls to the peaceful waters, crept the adventurous Fremont,son-in-law of the great Missouri senator who, inspired by the heroismof the young explorer and the scientific knowledge unfolded by hisexploits, uttered the prophecy in 1844, that the generation then alivewould live to behold the Asiatic commerce traverse the North PacificOcean, enter the Oregon Eiver, climb the western slope of the RockyMountains, issue from its gorges and spread its fertilizing streamsover our wide extended Union. That the tranquil surface of theNorth Pacific Ocean and the vast inclined planes, spreading eastwardand westward from the base of the Rocky Mountains, would beswept by the magic vessel and the swift-flying car, and that greatcity on the Missouri would find

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