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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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Paper Mill. were vacant. She was deeply interested in the comingpresidential campaign of 1888, and gave her companionsto understand that Robert Lincoln of Chicasfo was thecoming man. Well, we shall see. We have now visited several of the most wonderfulcities in the great West. This journey I trust will be oneof profit to the reader. There has never been a periodin the history of the country when the attention of somany eastern people was directed to the West as at the 174 FORT MADISON. present time. Young men are turning in that directionfor employment, expecting to find fortunes; middle-aeed men are movinof there with families to buildhomes, to rear and educate their children; capitalists,small and large, are sending their money there for in-vestment. Notwithstanding all these facts, the Easthas but an imperfect knowledge of the West — of
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Farming Tool Co. its climate, its geography, its resources, its development,its civilization, and also the most desirable localities formen to either locate or invest their money. In these chapters I have endeavored to give a truth-ful description of these cities and the surrounding terri-tory. In the West there may be other points whichhold out advantages for eastern emigrants and capi- FORT MADISON, I 75 talists, but no cities offer superior inducements in anydirection than these. And we advise any persons whomay propose to visit the West to follow the outline heregiven. For if you design to locate in Dakota, by allmeans select Southern Dakota, and in Southern DakotaSioux Falls is the city you will wish to see. If you pre-fer Northern Nebraska, go to Sioux City, which is itsgateway, and you can there learn more about NorthernNebraska than you possibly can at any other point. InSouthern Nebraska you will want to visit Fremont andLincoln, for at no other points can you find the oppor-

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