Volume 26 — THE FAR WEST: OR, A TOUR BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS. EMBRACING OUTLINES OF WESTERN LIFE AND SCENERY; SKETCHES OF THE PRAIRIES, RIVERS, ANCIENT MOUNDS, EARLY SETTLEMENTS OF THE FRENCH, ETC., ETC.
Reading edition
"If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge."—Izaak Walton.
"I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ''Tis all barren.'"—Sterne.
"Chacun a son stile; le mien, comme vous voyez, n'est pas laconique."—Me. de Sevigne.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET. 1838.
[Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.]
To One—
AT WHOSE SOLICITATION THESE VOLUMES WERE COMMENCED, AND WITH WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT THEY HAVE BEEN COMPLETED—
TO MY SISTER LUCY
ARE THEY AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.