# Tumbleweeds

Author: Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George), 1887-1934; Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef), 1878-1938 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72909

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Tumbleweeds+Evarts&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

This extract from McClelland’s report, later appearing as preface to some fourteen volumes of Pacific Railroad explorations, evidently acted as a direct challenge to the pioneering spirit of a country that was young. Following immediately upon its publication, as if in a concerted effort of refutation, the great westward trek across a continent set in, the determined advance of a land-hungry horde intent upon seeking out and settling that four hundred thousand acres of arable land; and in the brief space of thirty years there were thirty million acres under fence while the swarming multitude of hopeful settlers continued to surge westward across the face of the earth.

## Chapters

- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tumbleweeds-72909/chapters/15/index.md)