Identifier: ournewwestrecord01bowl (find matches)
Title: Our new West. Records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the plains--over the mountains--through the great interior basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and down the Pacific coast. With details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines , business, social life, progress, and prospects ... including a full description of the Pacific railroad; and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese. With map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878
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Publisher: Hartford, Ct., Hartford publishing co. New York, J.D. Dennison (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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-phur Springs—The Ute Indians; How they Live, Move and haveBeing—A Lingering Farewell to Middle Park—Over the BoulderPass—A Winters Morning and a Summers Noon on the Mountains—Night in a Barn. It was nine oclock the next morning before wecould move off into the Park. It is not an easymatter to make an earlier start when we have tocarry our homes with us; cook and eat breakfast;wash the dishes; catch the animals; pack up bedsand provisions; clean up camp, and reconstruct notonly for a days journey, but for a family moving. Ashort ride brought us into miles of clear prairie, withgrass one to two feet high, and hearty streams strug-gling to be first into the Pacific Ocean. This was theMiddle Park, and we had a long twenty-five milesride northerly through it that day. It was not mo-notonous by any means. Frequent ranges of hillsbreak the prairie; the latter changes from rich bot^tom lands with heavy grass, to light, cold gravellyuplands, thin with bunch grass and sage bush; slug
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LO, THE POOR INDIAN.—A Company of Uxe Braves. ACKOSS MIDDLE PARK. 113 gish streams and quick streams alternate; belts ofhardy pines and tender looking aspens (cotton-wood)lie along the crests or sides of hills; farther away arehigher hills fully wooded, and still beyond, ^Hhe range*that bounds the Park and circles it with eternal snows.The sun shines warm; there are wide reddish wallsof granite or sandstone along many of the hills; someof the intervales are rich with green grass; and thesky is deep blue ; and yet the prevailing tone and im-pression of the Park is a coldish gray. You find iton the earth; you see it in the subdued, tempered,or faded greens of leaf and shrub and grass; it hangsover the distant mountains; it prevails in the rocks;you feel it in the air,—a certain sort of stintedness orwithholding impresses you, amid the magnificence ofdistance, of hight and breadth and length, with whichyou are surrounded, and which is the first and great-est and most constant thought

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