Our new West
Subtitle: records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean : over the plains--over the mountains--through the great interior basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and down the Pacific Coast : with details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines, business, social life, progress, and prospects of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, including a full description of the Pacific Railroad : and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese : with map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations
By: by Samuel Bowles
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: Hartford Publishing Company
Published: 1869
Place of publication: Hartford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
Subjects: Description and travel; Mormons
Notes: "Published by subscription only."

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Table of contents: title: Introductory letters / from Vice-President [Schuyler] Colfax and Governor [William] Bross; title: Introductory chapter: Our new West: Its extent and importance, and four great divisions ; The cordilleras of South America and their progress thorough North America ; The first great division, the plains ; The second, the Rocky Mountains ; The third, the Great Interior Basin ; The fourth, the Sierra Nevadas and the Pacific Coast ; The characteristics of each ; The promise of the book; title: Over the plains by stage; title: The Pacific Railroad; title: Colorado : its mountains and parks; title: Life among the mountains; title: The Middle Park and the Ute Indians; title: Mountain climbing and camp life; title: An Indian "scare" and the Indians; title: The mines and the farms of Colorado; title: By stage into Utah; title: A week in Salt Lake City; title: Men and women, or polygamy, in Utah; title: The future of the Mormons; title: Through the desert basin by stage; title: The mines of Nevada; title: Over the mountains to the ocean; title: California; title: San Francisco; title: Country excursions in California; title: The Yo semite [Yosemite] Valley and the big trees; title: The Chinese; title: Mining in California; title: Farming in California; title: Oregon, Washington, British Columbia; title: The Columbia River, Idaho, Montana; title: Sandwich Islands, Colorado Canyon; title: Home by the isthmus.