Our New West: 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 ... 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 IllustrationsHartford Publishing Company, 1869 - 524 Seiten Details the author's journeys and experiences across the North American continent in the summers of 1865 and 1866, exploring the Western United States. |
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Seite 240 - There are sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world, or in that which is to come, and if they had their eyes open to see their true condition, they would be perfectly willing to have their blood spilt upon the ground...
Seite 334 - ... power, — a wide practical reach, a boldness, a sagacity, a vim, that I do not believe can be' matched anywhere in the world. London and New York and Boston can furnish men of more philosophies and theories, — men who have studied business as a science as well as practiced it as a trade, — but here...
Seite 502 - But hark ! the air again is still, The music all is ground, And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound...
Seite 150 - We want your hunting-grounds to dig gold from, to raise grain on, and you must "move on." Here is a home for you, more limited than you have had; hither you must go, here you must stay; in place of your game, we will give you horses, cattle and sheep and grain ; do what you can to multiply them and support yourselves ; for the rest.it is our business to keep you from starving.
Seite 37 - ... and valuable; and in any capacity, even the highest, he is sure to serve the country faithfully and well. He is one of the men to be tenaciously kept in public life; and I have no doubt he will be. Some people talk of him for president; Mr. Lincoln used to tell him he would be his successor ; but his own ambition is wisely tempered by the purpose to perform present duties well. He certainly makes friends more rapidly and holds them more closely than any public man I ever knew; wherever he goes,...
Seite 451 - Portland, — four hundred dollars a front foot for best lots one hundred feet deep on the main business street, without the buildings. In religion, the Methodists have the lead, and control an academic school in town and a professed State university at...
Seite 372 - Spires" unite the great impressiveness, the beauty and the fantastic forms of the Gothic architecture. From their shape and color alike, it is easy to imagine, in looking upon them, that you are under the ruins of an old Gothic cathedral, to which those of Cologne and Milan are but baby-houses.
Seite 148 - ... the Indians were loose, and hell was to pay;" followed by the coming of furious storm of rain and hail and thunder and lightning, sucking under our tents, beating through them, to wet pillows and blankets, — at any other time a dire grievance, now hardly an added trial ; every ear stretched for unaccustomed sound, every heart beating anxiously, but every lip silent ; all eagerly awaiting the slow-coming morning to bring renewal of life and the opportunity to go farther on and to safer retreats.
Seite 335 - ... of all life here; of comparative lack of homes and families and their influences. There are probably more bachelors, great lusty fellows, who ought to be ashamed of themselves, living in hotels or in "lodgings," in this town, than in any place of its size in the world.
Seite 287 - ... entered this mine through a long tunnel that strikes the vein several hundred feet below the surface. There were half a dozen of us in the procession, each with a lighted candle, which would go out under the outgoing draft, and so we soon contented ourselves with groping along in the dim, cavernous light. It seemed a very long journey, and the nerves had to brace themselves. The most stolid person, stranger to such experience, will hardly fail to find his heart beating a little quicker as he...