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About the author: Horace Greeley (1811 – 1872) was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery. The New York Tribune (which he founded and edited) was the most influential U.S. newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day." Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. This book covers a trip from New York to California that he took in the summer of 1859. Interestingly, this book was the first book on Yosemite to be distributed widely in the East. Book covers the following topics:Notes on Kansas,More Notes on Kansas,More of Kansas,Summing up on Kansas,On the Plains,The Home of the Buffalo,Last of the Buffalo,The American Desert,Good Bye to the Desert,The Kansas Gold Diggings,The Plains —The Mountains,The Gold in the Rocky Mountains,“Lo, the Poor Indian,”Western Characters,From Denver to Laramie,Laramie to South Pass,South Pass to Bridger,From Bridger to Salt Lake,Two Hours with Brigham Young,The Mormons and Mormonism,Salt Lake and its Environs,The Army in Utah,From Salt Lake to Carson Valley,Carson Valley—The Sierra Nevada, California—Mines and Mining,California—The Yosemite,California—The Big Trees,California—Physically Considered,California—Its Resources,California—Summing Up,California—Final Gleanings,Railroad to the PacificThis pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.

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In the spring of 1859 Horace Greeley, celebrated editor of the New-York Tribune, set off to explore the projected central route for a great transcontinental railroad line connecting the Mississippi Valley and the West Coast. Greeley traveled to California, primarily by stagecoach, and sent back a series of letters describing the scenery and human endeavor he encountered. He dismissed the plains as a region of "sterility and thirst." Of the new gold fields near Denver he predicted that they were only a modest representation of the rich veins that ran throughout the Rockies. He understood too that it would be those who mined the miners, rather than those who dug for gold, who would reap financial rewards. An inveterate reporter, Greeley commented on everything he saw, from prairie dogs to Mormons to the scenic wonders of the Yosemite valley. He was tireless in recounting economic possibilities for farmers, miners, ranchers, and merchants, ultimately concluding that much of the West was a vast, untapped resource waiting for courageous pioneers and innovative settlers.

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Excerpt from Overland Journey, From New York to San Francisco, in the Summer of 1859Good Bye to the Desert, The Kansas Gold Diggings, The Plains - The Mountains, The Gold in the Rocky Mountains, Lo, the Poor Indian, Western Characters, From Denver to Laramie, Laramie to South Pass, South Pass to Bridger, From Bridger to Salt Lake.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.