Category: Adventure

The Western Echo A Description of the Western State and Territories of the United States. As Gathered in a Tour by Wagon

Summer Trip Through the South--Indian Agencies--Canadian River--Lion Fight--Red River--Double Mountain--Staked Plains--Pecos River--Indian Skirmish--Santa Fe, New Mexico--Return to the Arkansas Valley--Description of the Plains--Mirage--Dangers of the Prairie--Wild Horses and...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

2. CHAPTER II.

3. CHAPTER III.

4. CHAPTER IV.

Summer Trip Through the South--Indian Agencies--Canadian River--Lion Fight--Red River--Double Mountain--Staked Plains--Pecos River--Indian Skirmish--Santa Fe, New Mexico--Return...

5. CHAPTER V.

6. CHAPTER VI.

7. CHAPTER I.

8. CHAPTER II.

9. CHAPTER III.

View of Salt Lake Valley and City--Tabernacle--History of the Mormons--Joe Smith--Came to Kirtland, Ohio--Brigham Young Converted--Located at Independence, Missouri--Located at...

10. CHAPTER IV.

We Leave Salt Lake--Reach the Sierra Nevada Slopes--Tunnels, Gorges, etc.--Reach California--Sacramento--San Francisco--Hotel Runners--Fruits--Palace Hotel--Chinese--Dennis Kear...

11. CHAPTER I.

A back turned upon the State of _Ohio_ is a back turned against the _Eden of the Union_! And to a person whose lot it has been to be born in this beautiful land, and whose borde...

12. CHAPTER II.

The great _emigrant land_ of which we had heard so much had at last been reached, and the din from the streets of the great _western exchange_ was borne to our ears upon the eve...

13. CHAPTER III.

When the October sun was creeping from the horizon and the melancholy winds were roaring over the dry, brown prairie, two young men of Montgomery County, Ohio,--Charles Wonderly...

14. CHAPTER IV.

Summer Trip Through the South--Indian Agencies--Canadian River--Lion Fight--Red River--Double Mountain--Staked Plains--Pecos River--Indian Skirmish--Santa Fe, New Mexico--Return...

15. CHAPTER V.

The country has now perhaps been _sufficiently described_; and though I have doubtless been a little _tiresome_ in _minutiæ_, I _hope_ at least to have succeeded in giving my re...

16. CHAPTER VI.

Most persons of ordinary information have heard something of the character of the population of the great American plains, and have observed that the _cow-boys_ have had their s...

17. CHAPTER I.

At two o’clock P.M. of June 5th, 1879, everything being in readiness, our little party of three bid farewell to our Granada friends and the pleasant old tramping-ground and stee...

18. CHAPTER II.

The next morning we rose at the dawn of day, and after breakfast we filled our jug with soda-water and journeyed for South Park. There was but one accessible route from this pla...

19. CHAPTER III.

View of Salt Lake Valley and City--Tabernacle--History of the Mormons--Joe Smith--Came to Kirtland, Ohio--Brigham Young Converted--Located at Independence, Missouri--Located at...

20. CHAPTER IV.

We Leave Salt Lake--Reach the Sierra Nevada Slopes--Tunnels, Gorges, etc.--Reach California--Sacramento--San Francisco--Hotel Runners--Fruits--Palace Hotel--Chinese--Dennis Kear...