Breaking the Wilderness : $b The Story of the Conquest of the Far West, From the Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, to the First Descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, With Particular Account of the Exploits of Trappers and TradersDellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
History
Breaking the Wilderness : $b The Story of the Conquest of the Far West, From the Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, to the First Descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, With Particular Account of the Exploits of Trappers and Traders
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- History
"The first great merit of the book is that it is strictly impartial,
written from a viewpoint midway between that of the white man who has
rarely treated the Indian or his history justly, and that which the
Indian himself would be supposed to take were he to write his history.
And the author's treatment of the red man it must be admitted is
just."—_Grand Rapids Herald._
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York London
A Canyon Voyage
_The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the
Green-Colorado River from Wyoming and the Explorations on Land in
the Years 1871 and 1872._
By Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Artist and Assistant Topographer of the Expedition
_8vo with 50 Full-page Illustrations from Photographs and
from Drawings by the Author (2 in color) and Maps including
reproductions of the first maps made. Net, $3.50. By mail, $3.75._
Mr. Dellenbaugh's new book is a narrative of the United States
Exploring Expedition, generally known as the Second Powell Expedition
down the Green and Colorado Rivers from Wyoming almost forty years
ago; an expedition which in all these years never has been described
in any government publication, nor by anyone in print excepting Mr.
Dellenbaugh, who was a member of the party. Yet it was the expedition
to make the first maps of the course of the river and of some of the
contiguous country. In the _Romance of the Colorado_, Mr. Dellenbaugh
gave a brief description of this expedition in order to make his history
of the remarkable river complete, but now feeling the desirability of
a fuller record in the interest of Western United States history, he
tells, in _A Canyon Voyage_, the whole experience.
_SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR_
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York London
_The_ Ohio River
_A Course of Empire_
By Archer Butler Hulbert
Associate Professor of American History, Marietta College. Author
of "Historic Highways of America," etc.
_Large Octavo with 100 Full-Page Illustrations and a Map. Net,
$3.50. By express, prepaid, $3.75_
An interesting description from a fresh point of view of the
international struggle which ended with the English conquest of the Ohio
Basin, and includes many interesting details of the pioneer movement on
the Ohio. The most widely read students of the Ohio Valley will find a
unique and unexpected interest in Mr. Hulbert's chapters dealing with
the Ohio River in the Revolution, the rise of the cities of Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, and Louisville, the fighting Virginians, the old-time
methods of navigation, etc. The work presents in a consecutive narrative
the most important historic incidents connected with the river, combined
with descriptions of some of its most picturesque scenery and delightful
excursions into its legendary lore.
_Send for Illustrated Descriptive Circular_
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York London
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