| Across the Continent: A Journey to the Rocky Mountains, Mormons and the Pacific States Contributor(s): Bowles, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0548007357 ISBN-13: 9780548007358 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $51.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: 1865. Bowles, the Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican recounts his travels as a journalist with Colfax across the Continental U.S. in a series of letters and supplementary papers. Partial Contents: From Massachusetts to the Missouri; From the Missouri to the Platte; Through the Plains to the Rocky Mountains; The Rocky Mountains and Their Gold Mines; Of Persons, Not Things; Mormon Materialities; The Polygamy Question; The Silver Mines of Nevada; The Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees; Mining in California: Its Varieties, Results and Prospects; and The Voyage Home by Steamship and the Isthmus. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 917 |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6" W x 9" (1.93 lbs) 484 pages |
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