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Title: The states and territories of the great West : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota (sic), Kansas, and Nebraska
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Ferris, Jacob
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Publisher: New York Auburn : Miller, Orton, and Mulligan Buffalo : E.F. Beadle
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ies of Lake Superior—Climate, etc 273 CHAPTER XVIII. KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. Boundary of Kansas —: Best lands open for settlement — Yalleys of thetributaries of the Arkansas River, and of the Smoky Hill Fork ofthe Kansas — Pasturage — The land between the desert hills andthe Rocky Mountains — The Kansas River—Valley of the GrandRiver — Timber — Coal — Springs — Council Grove — The GrandPrairie — The Upper Arkansas — Pawnee Rock — The mirage —Table of distances from Independence City to Pawnee Rock — TheSanta F6 trade — Southern Kansas ores — Settlements of EasternKansas — Kansas laws for the recognition of land claims — In-dians of Kansas—First right — Table of distances from FortRiley to Missouri border—Military roads — Climate of Kansas —Nebraska. - 304 CHAPTER XIX. KANSAS. Its history and politics 325 CHAPTER XX. Aid societies and preemptions 339 TABLE OF DISTANCES, Via the principal thoroughfares, to the Great West .... 34*7 &/A
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STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE GREAT WEST CHAPTER I. Early emigration to the West — Motives of the emigrants — Their in-dependence and perils — The western fever — The substantialsettler — Conveniences for traveling fifty years ago — The open-hearted frontiersman — The solitudes of the forest — Modes ofconveyance — The old-fashioned Jersey-wagon — The season foremigration — The preparation — The good-by start — Progress —The wayside meal—Incidents by the way — The buried treasure. For more than half a century public attention has beendirected toward the setting sun. At the beginning ofthat period, the West was regarded with mingled emo-tions of curiosity and dread. The contemplation of amagnificent, boundless wilderness, was well calculated toexcite the most sluggish imagination. But to the daringand resolute pioneer, the mystery that hung over the end-less woods was continually a temptation to explore the fur-thest regions concealed beneath their shade.statesterritorie00inferr

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