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Title: Life in the world's wonderland : a graphic description of the great Northwest, from the Mississippi River to the land of the midnight sun, including descriptions of Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fremont, Lincoln, Kansas City, Ottumwa, Fort Madison, and all the wonders of the unrivaled Yellowstone Park, the mines and canons of the Rocky Mountains, the beauties fo the Oregon and Columbia Rivers, and the famous inland passage from Tacoma, Washington Territory, to Sitka, Alaska : descriptions of the old Indian battle fields, including the last battle field of General Custer on the Big Horn River, the stories of old trappers, freighters, miners, and Indian fighters, told in their own unique style
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Gerrish, Theodore, 1846-1923
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Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e spring and fall, is fine sport.Wild turkeys, prairie chickens, quail, snipe, squirrels,rabbits, etc., are hunted in season, with great pleasureto the numerous sportsmen. Sailing and rowing on the noble river give healthyexercise and great enjoyment to those who have theleisure during the summer, as also do coasting, ice-yachting, and skating in the winter. Fort Madison is at this time in the exciting experi-ence of a genuine real-estate boom, caused by a railroadand carriage bridge now being built across the Missis-sippi River at that point by the great Atchison & SantaFe Railway. The citizens of Fort Madison have endeavored to 164 ^ORT MAD ISO X, make their city a railway centre from the beginning oftheir career, as the following bit of railroad history willshow : — In 1853 the citizens unanimously authorized the cityto subscribe $75,000 and $30,000 toward two railwayprojects, neither of which was fortunate enough to reachcompletion, notwithstanding an additional subscription
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Court House. of $30,000, made two years later. In 58 or 59 a roadwas constructed from Keokuk to Montrose, then knownas the Keokuk, Mt. Pleasant & Muscatine Railway.Early in the sixties a road was built from Fort Madison toa point one mile below Viele. The two were afterwardconnected, making a twenty-five mile line between FortMadison and Keokuk, and was called the Keokuk & St. FOR T MADISON. 165 Paul. In 69 it was purchased by the Chicago,Burlington & Quincy, and continued to Burlington,nineteen miles north, affording the city connection withthe outside world both from the north and south. Thisline was for several years used only as a branch of the Q, but now forms a part of the Long Line, betweenSt. Louis and St. Paul, over which run daily throughtrains, connecting the Great North with the GreatSouth. THE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & KANSAS CITY. In 70 and 71 was built the Burlington & SoutTi-western, from Viele Station (six miles west from FortMadison) southwest into Mi

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