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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ide, nar-rower gorges open out from them, and lead up amongtimber and to mountain tops. Streams, pure andlively, course through them, seeking home in the mys-tery of Salt Lake. Wherever the valley is bold enoughto widen, fertile meadows gladden the eye, and Mor-mon thrift and Mormon polygamy begin to show theirresults. More women and children than men are anew and strange sight in this far-away country. Out from the rugged Weber Canyon, the roadcomes plumply into the Salt Lake Valley, and atOgden, a branch connects the main line with thecapital city of the saints, thirty-nine miles distant.But here we are among the most prosperous farmingsettlements of Utah; and following the central roadup the valley to reach the northern point of SaltLake, we see Mormon civilization in villages andfarms, for forty or fifty miles or more. Crossing BearRiver near its mouth in Salt Lake, whence the stagesfor Montana will in future start from the Railroad,the line passes out of the Salt Lake or Wahsatch
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AROUND SALT LAKE—HUMBOLDT EIYER. 63 Valley, and in skirting the lake, has to attack andmount the Promontory Mountains that come sharplydown into the lake from the north. Here at Prom-ontory Point, the two companies, the Central Pacificand the Union Pacific, one building from the westand the other from the east, joined their tracks, andcompleted the grand Continental Railroad. Continuing west, the road completes the northerncircuit of the lake through a desert region, and goesout towards Nevada with uninviting surroundings.Pilot Peak, in the Ombre Mountains, is the firstnoticeable feature in the landscape; lying twelve tofifteen miles south of the Railroad, it commands agrand view of all the Salt Lake country and thedesert north and west of the water. The generalline of the road from Salt Lake to the Sierra Ne-vadas is along a high trough of rolling desert country,with occasional narrow fertile meadows; to the northhigh volcanic table-lands that intervene between itand the waters of

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