RARE 1869 ❤️ WILD OLD WEST_FRONTIER INDIANS_GOLD_MORMON_YOSEMITE_PIONEERS

Description: due to ebay raising the book fees to 12 %, including the shipping cost --I have some books posted in either an antique, art, or a collectible category, but you can......... CLICK HERE to see my other rare antique books. I ALWAYS HAVE a great selection -- and PLEASE CLICK HERE; To see my son's old books GORGEOUS! -it does have its full title pageTitle : - Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. Life and Adventure on the Prairies, Mountains, and Pacific Coastauthor: - Albert D. Richardsonpublished: - American Publishing Company --1869size= apx 9" x 6" and 2" thick -with 620 pages binding: - STUNNING.. 3/4 leather with 5 raised band, gilt lettering & design, marbled end papers, and gilt page tops illustrated with 216 engravings, some full pagefrom photographs and original sketches, of the prairies, deserts, mountains, rivers, mines, cities, Indians, trappers, pioneers, and great natural curiosities of the new states and territories. Contents: - the wild west...beyond the Mississippi. Gold mining, Indians, Mormons, frontier cities, steamboat racing, emigration, prisons, party of "peace-makers" [see picture with the men pointing guns at each other!], buffaloes, cotton picking, more Indians, frontier Supreme court, Yosemite, bears, Lewis and Clark, Pacific Railroad, Chinese labor, the telegraph, military, and so much more - looks like it covers every western state [or just about]. 49 chapters- FULL CONTENTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS LISTING Condition: Please zoom in on photos carefully as they are part of the description. I am human and sometimes miss a thing or 2, but I try to mention the book's main faults. all of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees excellent condition.... for its ageboards /covers - very securetextblock- pages very secureouter joints- very goodspine ends- very goodtips- just a wee bit of wearinner hinges- very good pages- in very good & very clean condition writing- name of ffeprips /folds- no rips that I saw, there might be a few small ones, apx 10 previously dog-eared pagesother- 2 name plates on front paste down, one belonging to Alfred Henry Lewis, which might be the famous American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Dan Quin. Lewis began as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald. As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were Westerns from his Wolfville series. a "must have" for your library! please Add me to your Favorites list AND check back now and then to see what's new! I do combine ship, but only if you "request total from seller" BEFORE YOU PAY -otherwise I can't send you a new invoice. Place the items you want in your shopping cart, then "Request total from seller", when you get the new invoice, then pay. If you have trouble, contact me. I am occasionally out of town for a day or 2, don't panic, I'll get to it ASAP media mail SHIPPING TO USA ONLY - It can take up to 14 days to get back East, it's rare, but it does happen. 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CLICK HERE to see it CONTENTS from archive.org - there may be some mistakes, but you get the ideaCHAPTER 1"Westward and "Westward. American "Wines of the "West. The Great Muddy River. Scenes along the Missouri. Terrors of Missouri Navigation. A Story of Steamboat Racing. Stopping to '"Wood Up.' Oration by a Steamboat Gambler. All Varieties of Passengers. Arrival in Kansas City. Encounter- ing an Old Acquaintance. Border Ruffians iu Kansas, 17 CHAPTER II. A Glance at "Wyandotte, Kansas. How Frontier Cities are Begun. A Romantic Indian Legend. A City among the Rocks. On the Rolling Prairies. Travel- ers along the Road. A Bit of Yankee Ingenuity. How Lawrence was Founded. And how it was Named. A Scene of Surpassing Beauty, 29 CHAPTER III. A "War Reminiscence. Juries and Councils of "War. Origin of the Kansas Troubles. Resistance to the Bogus Laws. Two Characteristics of the Struggle. Free State Convention at Topeka. Lane's Power as an Orator. His Physical Endurance. His Speech in the Convention. Other Prominent Speakers. Reception of a Bogus Assessor. A Collection on First Principles. History repeating itself ' Casting out the Vile Demon,' , . . 39 CHAPTER IV. First Visit to Leavenworth. A Journey on Foot. A Night with a Kentucky Squatter. The First Landing at Sumner. Atchison, Doniphan and Geary City. A Mania for Speculation. Difference between Fact and Fancy. A Real Estate Reaction. Rivalry of American Cities. An Eucroaching Element. Vagaries of the Missouri, 53 CHAPTER V. Deadly Affray at the Polls. A Kansas Temple of Justice. A Murder for Money. A Mob Administering Justice. ' The Man with the Rope.' An Exciting Night Scene, Mormons Escaping to Kansas. The Land Sale at Osawkee. Border Ruffian Courts of Justice. A Quasi Declaration of War. Treason to be Put Down. Fallacy of Human Testimony. Governor Extinguished by Ridicule, . 64 CHAPTER VI. Wild Fruits of the Prairies. An Emigrant Family in Camp. Rain Increasing with Civilization. A Shrewd Speculator in Lumber. "Within Prison walls. Last Treason Trial in Kansas. Traveling to a Convention. Siege of Hickory Point. A Declaration by Buchanan. The Ballot or the Rifle. Rupture in the Democratic Party. Fifteen Whisky Punches, 77 CHAPTER VII. Night Rides on the Prairies. Seeking Shelter among the Indians. A Night ■with a Delaware Family. Origin of Indian Appellations. The Delaware Baptist Mission. Another Night's Lodging. Soraetiiiug about the Shawnees. Pottawatomie Funeral Rites. Origin of some Kansas Names. A Little Le- gendary Lore, 89 CHAPTER VIII. Governor Denver makes his Debut. And has a Spirited Reception. "Wonderful Election Returns. To Vote or not to Vote. A Kansas Search-warrant. His- tory of the Minneola Scheme. ' Mightier than the Sword.' General Lane re- ceives his Friends. A Speech Nipped in the Bud. Governors plenty as Black- berries, 99 CHAPTER IX. An Imaginary City. 'What are j'our Politics?' Freaks of Pohtical Highway- men. Not much Room left. An Excitement at Lawrence. Jenkins killed by General Lane. An Adventurous Cat-fish. Tlie Result of a Mis-step. Brave Father and Brave Son. A Most Inhuman Massacre. Le Marais du Cygne, ... 109 CHAPTER X. A Party of Peace-makers. Before a Comfortable Fire. A Night at Osawattomie. Both Sides of the Question A Simple, Touching Story. Tlie Great Guerrilla Chieftain. One of his Devoted Adherents. ' Catching a Tartar ' Illustrated. A Moment of Excitement. Uniting to Keep the Peace. An Address by Montgomery, 120 CHAPTER XI. Feminine Smokers of Tobacco. Fever and Ague Experiences. Perplexing Usages of Words. Mysterious Slang Phrases Interpreted. Pearls and Return- ing Gold Seekers. Colonel Gilpin's Early Predictions. Rattlesnakes as Bed- fellows. Mysteries of Pre-empting Lands. Forms of ' Duplicates ' and Patents. ' Oaths are Words.' Borrowing a Child. An Ingenious Runaway Husband. A Clever Stratagem Spoiled. Fertility of the Hemp Region. Republican ver- sus Black Republican, 131 CHAPTER XII. A Bit of Legislative Fun. Cost of Kissing a Chamber-maid. Easy Divorce in New States. Prisoners brought to Lawrence. An Unfortunate Hamilton. A Hard Country for Governors. Kidnapping of John Doy. His Rescue by John CONTENTS. XI Brown. Kansas Tapped by the Railway. The Luxuries of Modem Travel. A Little Trip to Kansas, 147 CHAPTER XIII. Great Stampede for the Mines. The Sufferings along the Route. 'Concord "Wagon ' or Stage Coach. St. Mary's Catholic Mission. Horace Greeley Taking a Tour. A Limited Stock of Groceries. A Model Letter of Introduction. A Specimen of Editorial Penmanship. Among the Antelopes and Buffaloes. A Jovial Prairie Micawber. Facts about the Buffalo. A Narrow Escape from Death, 157 CHAPTER XIV. Horace Greeley's Wide-spread Fame. Half a Million of Buff"aloes. The Curious Little Prairie-dog. Health and Strength of the Savage. Overturn of the Coach. A Night in a Cheyenne Village. Republican River under Ground. First View of Pike's Peak. Inspiring Presence of the Mountains. Denver City in its Infancy, 169 CHAPTER XV. Starting for the Gregory Diggings. Our Weary and Winding Way, In the Heart of the Mountains. First Reliable Report of the Mines. First Mass Meeting at Pike's Peak. Freaks of our Eccentric Mules. Our Most Extraordinary Land- lord. ' Our Best Society ' in Denver. A Finished Specimen of a Gambler. An Unfailing Supply of Victims. The Turns of Fortune's Wheel. Almost one of Cooper's Heroes. A Visit from the Arapahoe Chief. A Conversation with Lit- tle Ravea, 179 CHAPTER XVI. Little Raven as a Devotee. Indian Signals — Peace or Hostility. Expressive Features and Gestures. Ho, for the Mountains again! Death from the Moun- tain Fires. Evening Scenes among the Miners. The Gregory Diggings on Sunday. Intellectual, Argumentative Miners. Predictions of Gold and Agri- culture. A Shrewd California Emigrant. Beauty of our Indian Corn, 193 CHAPTER XVII. The Great Missouri Iron Moiintains. Quarrying out the Iron Ore. Twenty-seven Hundred, Fahrenheit. Warsaw's Last Champions— and Soap. Lynching in Springfield Missouri. Effect of the War upon Mis.souri. Conversations with the Settlers. The Great Neo.sho Lead Region. Subterranean Mining Scenes. Mode of Reducing Lead Ore. Villages in Southwestern Missouri, 204 CHAPTER XVIII. Life at Fort Smith Arkansas. Cotton Picking in Louisiana. The Tale of an Ink- stand. Experiences in a Sick Chamber. Entering the Indian Territory. Among the Cherokees and Choctaws. Curious Hereditary Complexions. Xll CONTENTS. Novel Boarding School Freaks. Crinoline among Indian "Women. The Chicka- saw.s lose their laws, 215 CHAPTER XIX. News of Broderiek's Death. Frequency of Homicides in Texas. The Quaint Mexican Cart. Stopped by the Colorado River. The Fierce, Untamed Co- manches. Signal Code among the Savages. A Plucky Little Texan Woman. On tlie Great Staked Plain. A Girl Stolen by Comanches. A Fatal Fondness for Pictures, 225 CHAPTER XX. Pr.^aeliing Easier than Practice. Tlie Colonel retires Disabled. First Line across tlie Continent. ' Out "West ' on its Travels. Peon Labor in New Mexico. A Kcntuckian in Court. Street Pictures in Mexican Towns. A Native Meg Merrilies. An Aristocratic Castilian Gatliering. Sund;.y Worship in the Ca- thedral 235 CHAPTER XXI. From El Paso to Santa Fe. Adventures witli the Apaches. Consumption of Red Peppers. Passing througli Albuquerque. Arrival in Santa Fe. Highest Town in the Union. An Experience at Gambling. Curiosities and Horrid Trophies. Families of "White Indians. Fascination of Border Life, 245 CHAPTER XXII. A Stray Prir.ter and Journalist. A Ride with Kit Carson. His Hair-breadth 'Scapes Hospitality of the Mexican. The Victim of a Biographer. All about Mexican Donkeys. Tlio Rel)ellion of 1847. Curious Religious Customs of Na- tives. Mexican Peonage versus Slavery. Among tlie Pueblo Indians. Their Superstitions and Traditions. Strange Old Aztec Ruins. Geological Changes in the Country-, 256 CHAPTER XXIII. From Taos to Denver, Colorado. A Polyglot Landlord. Before the Sutler's Fire. Out-door Mountain Lodgings. Meeting a Plucky Pedestrian. An Unpleasant Sleeping Companion. A Herd of Spotted Antelopes. Offerings to an Invisible Deity. Another Old Friend. Climate and Pulmonary Complaints. A Report of John Brown. End of Summer Journeyings, ''2Q'J CHAPTER XXIV. A Night with a Squatter. Killed in the Darkness. Reminiscences of Old John Brown. Yankees, Missnurians and 'Cricks.' A Letter from John Brown. One of Jolin Brown's Followers. An Extinguishing Retort. Along the Emi- grant R(.ad. IluMiors of Plains Travel. Our Pioneers and Self-government. An Illustration of Lynch Law. Gordon's Capture, Trial and Death. "V\''onder- ful Tenacity of Life, 2S1 CHAPTER XXV. A Summer Day in Denver. Best House in tlie Neighborhood. A Breakfast Party of Rovers. Newspapers, Churches, Hotels, Stores. Mint, Express-office and Coach. Curious Characters from Everywhere. A Stroll down Blake Street An Editor and a Count. A Grand Mountain Panorama, 294 CHAPTER XXVI. Little Eaven Loses a Treasure. A Dentist Practices Strategy. A Hard Countrjk for Editors. A Night at Aiwllo Theater. Tisit to Gregory Diggings. Pun- ishing a Precocious Youth. In the Great Soutli Park. A Memorable Summer Excursion. The Interesting Monument Region. Music in Underground Chambers, 303 CHAPTER XXVII. Starting up the Mountains. Scenes of Picturesque Beauty. jSTature's Terrible Convulsions. Dismal and Dreary Situation. Clouds Breaking once more. Fears of Fever and Delirium. All Vegetation left behind. On the Crest al last. An Indescribably Grand View. Four Territories— Four Great Rivers. Provisions Alarmingly Scarce. Effects of the Five-days' Trip. Good Treat- ment for Invalids. The Trans-continental Pony Express, 313 CHAPTER XXVIII. Starting Westward again. "Indian Murders and Depredations. Tornado near Fort Kearney. Press Dispatches on the Wing. One Dollar for a Newspaper. Grasshoppers Miraculoush' Destroyed. Ranch Eggs versus States Eggs. Les- son of Mountain Scenery. Gregory Diggings at Six Years Old. A Curious Claim Controversy. Growth and Resources of Colorado, 327 CHAPTER XXIX. Virginia Dale — Lover's Leap. Smelling the Battle afar off. Indians a Little too Near. "Wagon Three Inches too Wide. Chruch Butte and Fort Bridger. An Old Trapper's Story. Three Mormon Wives— all Sisters. First View of Salt Lake Valley. Speeches and Responses — Hot Springs. Scenery of Wonderful Beauty. Eight Days among the Mormons. Miracles of the Telegraph. Frank Discussion with Brigham Y^'oung 338 CHAPTER XXX. The City of the Future. All the Jews are Gentiles. Personal Description of Brigham. An Hour in Brigham's School. Thirty Wives and Sixty Children. Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea. Sunday Service of the Mormons. Brig- Lam's Great Theater. Dwellers among the Mountain-tops. Sagacity of the Mormon Leaders. Practical Workings of Polygamy. One Wife too many. Assassinations in Salt Lake City. Early Trials of the Pioneers. How the Problem will be Solved, 351 CHAPTER XXXI. From Salt Lake City Westward. Eight Miles in Thirty Minutes. Irrigating the Sandy Deserts. Hardships and Perils of P^xplorers. Features of Austin Ne- vada. First View of Sierra Nevadas. A City set upon a Hill. Excitements in Mining Stocks. Richest Silver Mine ever Found. Curious Inventions of Mi- ners. Four Hundred Feet under Ground. Ores Sent Abroad for Reduction. Five Hundred Millions per Annum, 3G6 CHAPTER XXXII. Carson City and Carson Valley. Earliest OfiBcers of Nevada. Lake Tahoe, on Sierra Nevadas. Seven Thousand Feet above Sea-level. A Legend of Stage Driving. Thrilling Ride down the Sierras. Reaching the Locomotive again. Sacramento — Arrival in San Francisco. A Startling Catalogue of Events. Delightful Days in PlacerviUe. The Rare Charm of California. Chinamen on the Pacific Coast. Among the Hydraulic Miners. The Wonderful Power of Water 379 CHAPTER XXXIII. Wann Climate of Pacific Coast. Scene of a California Story. The Widow of John Brown. Spelling ' Yreka Bakery ' Backward. Reminiscences of General Grant. Noteworthy Points on the Road. Plentifulness of Babies. Portland Street and River Scenes. Excursion up the Columbia. Lincoln Grant and Sheridan. Curious Dalles of the Columbia. A Bit of Oratorical Fun. Northern Pacific Railroad wanted. A Couple of ' Little Stories,' 393 CHAPTER XXXIV. A Frontier Supreme Court. Oregon Pioneers Govern Themselves. Terrible Re- venge on the Savages. The Rich Resources gf Oregon. A Little more Oregon Cider. Forests of Washington Territory. A Strange Forest Village. The America of the Future. Beautiful Scenery of Puget Sound Under the British Flag. Features of Vancouver Island. American Rhetoric among the Britons. Fate of the Brother Jonathan, 407 CHAPTER XXXV. Discovery of Yosemite Valley. View from Inspiration Point. Riding down the Zigzags. Hutehings and his Household. Trees and Walls of the Valley. Yosemite Fall— Highest in the World. ElCapitan; Mount King; Mount Col- fax. Bridal Vail; Vernal; Mirror Lake. The Wonderful Round Rainbow. Grandest Scenery on the Globe. Eight Thousand Feet above Sea-level. Visit- ing the Mariposa Big Trees. Forty Feet in Diameter. A Forest Ingomar and Parthenia. Grizzly Giant — Thirty-four Feet in Diameter. A Grand National Summer Resort, 420 CHAPTER XXXVI. Invited to Celestial Hospitalities. Sitting down to the Banquet. More than Three Hundred Dishes. Extracts from the Bill-of-fare. 'Wives won't Come.' Mr. Colfax and his Journey. My Friends Homeward Bound. California Poli- tics as a Study. Features of California Society. American Wit and Humor. A String of California Stories, 436 CHAPTER XXXVII. The "Raw Winds of San Francisco. A Climate Stimulating like Wine. Fires and Earthquakes Unavailing. Prejudice against the Chine.«e. Mission Mills; Church; Yosemite Views. California Quartz-mining and Farming. Grain, Vegetables and Fruit Trees. Mammoth Productions of California. Oranges, Vineyards and Wines. An Immense Private Enterprise. The San Francisco Newspapers. A Bit of Historical Record. Half an Hour in the Mint. The Great PaciHc Railway, 447 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Excursion on the Pacific Railroad. Twelve Thousand Chinese Laborers. Horri- ble Fate of the Donner Party. Engulfed by a Snow-slide. Establishing the Railway Route. Empty Travelers Fearless of Robbers. Fellow Passengers on the Desert. Once more in Salt Lake City. A ' Destroying Angel ' on Journal- ists. The Salt Lake Poetess. A Few of her Early Stanzas. Pah Ranagat Sil- ver Region, Colorado River and Big Canyon. The Novelties of Arizona, ... . 461 CHAPTER XXXIX. From Salt Lake to Montana. On Waters of tlie Pacific. Hanged upon his own Gallows. Virginia Montana, and Alder Gulch. Scenes during the Flu.sh Times. An Hour in the Hurdy-gurdy. Standing Astride the Missouri. A Visit to Helena. Curious Painting of Fort Union. Pitched from a Stage Coach. Costly Newspaper Publishing. Quaint Indian Translations. Vigi- lantes Administering Justice. Quartz on the Brnin. A Great Future for Montana, 475 CHAPTER XL. Lewis and Clark's Great Expedition. Explorers given up as Dead. Build them a Monument! 'Help yourself to the Mustard.' Unerring Instinct of Beavers. Every Man's House his Castle. A most Wonderful Mirage. Visiting Great Shoshonee Fall. Enormous Portals of Lava. Fascination of tlie Deep Gulf A Bloodless Idaho War. Unattractive State of Society. The Chinook Jargon. Scenes in a Great Quartz Mill, 490 CHAPTER XLI. A Visit to Owyhee. Ruby City — War Eagle Mountain. Grinding Quartz versus Stamping. 'Italian Summers and Syrian Winters.' Into the Oro Fino Mine. XVI CONTENTS. The Great Poorman War. Much Capital Recklessly Squandered. Agricultural Capacitj' of Idaho. Robberies of Mail Coach. Among the Blue Mountains. A Night at Meacham's. Down the Beautiful Columbia. Lewis and Clark's Old Campmg-ground. Our Quartz Regions Full of Interest, 504 CHAPTER XLII. The Telegraph always a Miracle. Ingenious Newspaperial Strategy. A Story of the Rebellion. Healdsburg and Foss-station. The Roar of the Geysers. Plu- ton River and Devil's Canyon. Grotto; Devil's Wash-bowl and Kitchen. Witches' Caldron; Crater; Vent Holes. The Wonders of California, 518 CHAPTER XLIII. Steamer-day ' in San Francisco. Finest Vessels in the World. Captains' Wives not Admitted. Gull, Albatross and Porpoise. A Lazy and Luxurious Exist- ence. Six Hours in Acapulco. Earthquakes — A Droll War. No Vehicles nor Wagon Roads. Wonderful Beauty of the Nights. Arrival at Panama, . . 527 CHAPTER XLIV. Native Complexions and Costumes. The Old Cathedral at Panama. A Black Proverbial Philosopher. Lignumvitaj Sleepers ; Cement Poles. Richest Vege- tation in the World. Along the Panama Railway. Twelve Hours in Aspin- wall. Discomforts on the ' Rolling Deep ' Experiences of the Passengers. Fight in a Heavy Gale. End of Eight Months' Wanderings, . 537 CHAPTER XLV. A Ride through Illinois. Atchison; Sumner; Leavenworth. Railway Ride to Topeka. A Political Convention again. Curious Retributive Justice. Omniv- orous Grasshoppers. Farming by Machinery. Women Voting on School Mat- ters. Lawrence; the Old Landmarks. Paola; the Border Counties. One ■" Cent per Year. Kansas as a Farming State. Beautify the Dwellings. Peace Ilath her Victories, 548 CHAPTER XLVI. From Saint Joseph to Omaha. A Beautiful Town-site. Street Scenes in Omaha, An Original American. Out on the Pacific Railroad. Two and-a-half Miles per Day. The Three Kansas Forks. Twenty-five Thousand Men Employed. An Experience of Lewis and Clark. A Trip across Iowa. Around the World by Railway, 562

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