My Native Land, the United States
Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People; With Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from My Native Land, the United States: Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People; With Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History<br><br>Vm. Into The Bowels Of The Earth. The Grand Canou of the Colorado Niagara Outdone The Course of the Colorado River A Survey Party Through the Canon Experiences of a Terrible Night Wonderful Contrasts of Color in the Massive Rocks A Natural Wall a Thousand Feet High Hieroglyphics which have Never been Deciphered Relics of a Superior Race Conjecture as to the Origin of the Ancient Bearded White Men. Chapter XIX. Our Great Waterways. Importance of Rivers to Commerce a Generation Ago The Ideal River Man The Great Mississippi River and its Importance to our Native Land The Treacherous Missouri A First Mate who Found a Cooks Disguise very Convenient How a Second Mate got over the Inconvenience of Temporary Financial Embarrassment. Chapter XX. Through The Great Northwest. The Importance of Some of our Newest States Romantic History of Montana The Bad Lands and their Exact Opposite Civilization Away Up in the Mountains Indians who have Never Quarreled with White Men Traditions Concernino: Mount Tacoma Wonderful Towns of the Extrcme Northwest A State Shaped like a Large Chair The Falls of Shoshone.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.