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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Name: 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
Author: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- History

I have had much kind assistance and am grateful for it. I am
particularly obliged to Mr. William J. Schieffelin for the generous and
unlimited use of valuable books from his library; to Mr. E. H. Harriman
for transportation favours; also for the same to Mr. S. K. Hooper;
to Mr. F. M. Bishop for the loan of a volume on Jacob Hamblin not
otherwise obtainable; to Mr. O. D. Wheeler and the Montana Historical
Society for cuts; to Captain E. L. Berthoud, Edgar A. Rider, and Jack
Sumner for manuscript notes; to Mr. L. H. Johnson for manuscript notes
and photographs; to Mr. B. L. Young for a special drawing of the rock
pecking of a buffalo in southern Utah; to Mr. R. H. Chapman, Mr. J. B.
Lippincott, Mr. J. K. Hillers, Mr. E. E. Howell, Mr. Delancy Gill, for
photographs; and to the United States Bureau of Ethnology for the use
of illustration material. I would also here thank my publishers for
their constant consideration, for presents of books pertaining to my
subject, and for the loan of others; and Mr. H. C. Rizer, chief clerk
of the United States Geological Survey, for assistance and courtesies
extending over a long series of years. Finally I wish to express my
renewed thanks for many favours to the veteran geographer and explorer,
A. H. Thompson, of the United States Geological Survey, to whom I have
the honour of dedicating this book.

     Frederick S. Dellenbaugh.
     New York, December 7, 1904.




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CONTENTS


     CHAPTER I                                                    PAGE

     Extent of the Wilderness—The First White Man—The Backbone
     of the Continent—A Vanished Sea and a Petrified Ocean—The
     Biggest Trees—The Spike of Gold                                 1

     CHAPTER II

     The Intelligent Beaver, Chief of the Rodents—A
     Four-footed Engineer—A Builder of Houses, Artificial
     Canals, Dams, Ponds, and Lakes—Beaver Meadows—A Masterful
     Woodchopper—A Tail for the Epicure—Muskbogs—The Fatal
     Trap                                                           13

     CHAPTER III

     A Monarch of the Plains—The Hunchback Cows of Cibola—A
     Boon to the Frontiersman—Wide Range of the Bison—Marrow
     Bones for the Epicure—Washington Irving a Buffalo
     Hunter—The Rushing Run of the Bison Herd—The Sacred White
     Buffalo Cow Skin—A Calf with a Bull Head—Wolves and White
     Bears                                                          32

     CHAPTER IV

     The People of the Wilderness—Men without Rights—Killing
     by Alcohol—Change in the Character of the Native—Growth
     of the War Spirit—Classification by Language—Dwellers
     in Tents and Builders of Houses—Farmers and
     Hunters—Irrigation Works—The Coming of the Horse               54

     CHAPTER V

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

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