The Appendix which follows is divided into three chapters. The first of these embodies information of especial interest to the immense army of home-seekers who, from every quarter, are turning their eyes eagerly and hopefully toward the free and boundless West. The second chapter is designed for the use of the sportsman, and the third furnishes very valuable and instructive details concerning the topography, resources, climate, etc., of the plains, and, more particularly, a description of the larger streams, with their contiguous valleys, which drain the vast area included within the limits of Buffalo Land. W. E. W. APPENDIX. CHAPTER FIRST. FURTHER INFORMATION FOR THE HOME-SEEKER. APPENDIX. CONTENTS OF CHAPTER FIRST. PAGE COME TO THE GREAT WEST, 435 SHOULD THERE NOT BE COMPULSORY EMIGRATION, 436 "GET A GOOD READY," 437 HOMESTEAD LAWS AND REGULATIONS, 438 THE STATE OF KANSAS, 447 THE COST OF A FARM, 448 A FEW MORE PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS, 449 APPENDIX. CHAPTER FIRST. _FURTHER INFORMATION FOR THE HOME-SEEKER._ COME TO THE GREAT WEST! The Western States and Territories afford unexampled inducements to the surplus energy and capital of the East and Europe; and the field which they spread out so invitingly to the emigrant's choice is as wide as it is magnificent. Hundreds of millions of acres of rich land--embracing bottom and prairie, timber and running water--are open for settlement. Counties are to be populated, and towns built, all over the new States and Territories. Each of these latter is an empire in itself. Great Britain could be set down within the borders of any one of them, and yet leave room for some of the German principalities. The records of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington show that, wherever the new soil has been cultivated, both the yield per acre and the quality of the crops produced are better than in the older States. The balance of power is moving westward, and the capital of the nation, it can scarcely be doubted, must eventually come also.