# The West from a car window

Author: Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916; Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69118

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+West+from+a+car+window+Davis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

IT is somewhat disturbing to one who visits the West for the first time with the purpose of writing of it, to read on the back of a railroad map, before he reaches Harrisburg, that Texas “is one hundred thousand square miles larger than all the Eastern and Middle States, including Maryland and Delaware.” It gives him a sharp sensation of loneliness, a wish to apologize to some one, and he is moved with a sudden desire to get out at the first station and take the next train back, before his presumption is discovered. He might possibly feel equal to the fact that Texas is “larger than all of the Eastern and Middle States,” but this easy addition of one hundred thousand square miles, and the...

## Chapters

- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-from-a-car-window-69118/chapters/11/index.md)