Antique Old West Overland Travel Tourist Pioneer Railroad Indians Western Plains

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Antique Old West Overland Travel Tourist Pioneer Railroad Indians Western Plains:
$96.39

var itemNumber = window.ItemID ? window.ItemID : -1; function passpara(){return + itemNumber + location.href.lastIndexOf(\'/\') + 1));} ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE OCCIDENT. THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC. A Summer Trip of the ZigZag Club from Boston to the Golden Gate. By Hezekiah Butterworth. © 1885 Published by Estes and Lauriat, Boston. 8.5” x 7” blindstamped cloth hardcover decorated with gilt and black. Decorated endpapers. Profusely illustrated. 320 pages.

Condition: VERY GOOD CONDITION. Exterior looks great as shown in photo: clean, with bright gilt and sharp black decoration. Binding is firm and secure with strong, unbroken hinges. Clean, bright text. No torn, loose or missing pages. Old price tag on inside front cover. Beautiful example of this 131-year-old western title.

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Description:

This handsome 1883 book profiles America’s great westward emigration movement of the mid- to late 19th-century through the dramatized experiences of a group of young men traveling from Boston to San Francisco. It embraces and illustrates every aspect of the emigrant experience: early explorations of the Mississippi and the “New West,” the overland journey west endured by countless thousands, Indian conflicts and depredations, farming, ranching, mining, land grabs, treacherous terrain and hazardous weather, natural wonders like Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and the Sequoia trees of California, the transcontinental railroad and more.

The Preface states:

Homesteading!

It is an American word, but one of wonderful meaning. It expresses the early history of those great empires, called States, now forming in the West …

It is the purpose of this story-telling volume to explain HOMESTEADING, and to give a glance at the resources of the great Northwest and its opportunities for the emigrant.

A great tide of emigration is pouring into the West, especially the Northwest, from Europe. Young men in the Eastern States are seeking the West in greater numbers than ever before; and families from the Middle States, once called the West, are steadily crossing the Mississippi.

This volume, though in the main a book of stories, seeks to show the aim and possible results of the great emigration; what the government’s lands are, and how they may be obtained; the conditions of success of the Western homesteader, and the possible profits of his enterprise.

This 127-year-old book features a handsome brown binding lavishly decorated with gilt in the Victorian style. A wealth of artistic illustrations accompany the text.

In order to give you the most accurate description of this beautiful book, I have provided some helpful details below. First, a summary of the Contents. Second, a summary of the many illustrations which adorn these pages. And third, further down the page, an opportunity for you to see many of these breathtaking engravings for yourself.

All of this is to help you make an informed decision when offerding. I hope you’ll take a few moments to have a look.

Contents Are: (1) A Discovery (2) A New Journey Planned (3) Charlie Leland and Gentleman Jo (4) A Meeting of the ZigZag Club (5) A Story-Telling Journey (6) The Story of Detroit (7) The Story of Chicago (8) St. Paul (9) Minneapolis (10) Dakota (11) Wonder-land (12) The Story of Mormonism (13) San Francisco (14) Ancient America

Illustrations Include: Holy Cross Mountain * Grand Canon of the Colorado * A Dakota town and farm * Sweet William * Heroes of the Plains * In search of a homestead * A settler’s home in the mountains * A timber claim * Stock-raising in the Southwest * Horseshoe Canon * Trees of the Yosemite * Giant Geyser * Aborigines * Hoodoos * Mud volcano * Seeding on the prairie * Scipio’s flight from the Bear * Indian Burial Place * A whooping Indian * An electrical shriek * A Prairie on Fire * The Indians drew near * Neetmok Rock * The child’s appeal for mercy * Mary Bosomworth inciting the Indians to violence * Crossing the Mountains * Members of the ZigZag club * Young Garfield at the carpenter’s bench * Henry Wilson * On the prairie * John Wyman crossing the prairie * A western forest home * A Prairie Schooner * Rounding up a herd * The herder’s home * Dalrymple Farm * Fargo, Dakota Territory * State House, Boston * The Ossipee Stage * Chocorua * James Abram Garfield * Assassination of Garfield * Merry making * Gladwyn and the Indian girl * Early emigrants and their captors * Neetmok * La Salle claims the Mississippi for the French * First white men on the “Great River” * Death of Marquette * Jesuit fathers * The Treaty * Union Depot * Tower of water-works * Palmer House * Chamber of Commerce * The Lincoln Monument * Lincoln resting * The State of Lakes * Lake Como * Perils of frontier life * Chit-to * Emigrants on the Missouri * Falls of St Anthony * Short Line Bridge * Falls of Minnehaha * Hanging the Robe * Fable Land * The Picard’s Dream * Land full of ruins * The Spanish cavalier * Lake Minnetonka * Coureur De Bois * Fountain of Youth * Early settlers in Dakota * A trestle on the Northern Pacific * A blizzard * Mary’s Veil Cascade * The Grotto and Fan Geyser * Tower Fall * Yellowstone River * Philip Cascade * Yellowstone Lake * Mud Volcanoes * Yellowstone Lake * “Old Faithful” * Geyser Land * Indian and his bride * Hoodoos * It’s a Bear! * Indian mounds * Relics from mounds * Pretended finding of the Plates * Doherty\'s Description * Translating the Bible * Brigham Young at the Great Salt Lake * The End * Mormon Temple * Grand Canon looking East * Marble Canon * Into the Grand Canon * Grand Canon of the Colorado * Indigenous to the soil * Mu-koori-tu-weap Canon * At the foot of Gray Canon * Island Monument * On the Colorado River * Palace Hotel at San Francisco * In Asia * Giant Trees in California * A section * Big Tree Tunnel * Exhausting the poison * Prairie Dogs * The Yosemite Valley * The Long Lost Brother * Nevada Fall * Restoration of Pueblo Bonito * Room in the Moki House * The Railroad crept to the regions of the Sun * Restoration of Pueblo Hunijo Pavie * Zunis * Mining in Colorado * Room in Pueblo at Taos * Garden of the Gods.

Remember folks, this is an 1883 original. This book is 131 years old.

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