I would say to the emigrant, Do not be influenced to select any one particular State or locality until you have more authority for the step than a single publication. Examine carefully, make up your mind deliberately, and then move with determination. It will require no very great exertion to secure a half dozen glowing advertisements from as many new Western States and Territories. It will need but little more effort to obtain from five to fifty "rosy" circulars from as many different districts in each of the separate "garden spots." After examining these until ready to sing,-- "How happy could I be with either Were t' other dear charmer away," take down your map, and let the railroads and streams assist your choice. You have then secured yourself against one danger of the journey--that of having these same circulars flung into your lap _en route_, and being diverted by them into dubious ways and needless expenditures. But be careful, reader, that you select not as accurate beyond the possibility of a mistake the maps accompanying the circulars; otherwise, you may find yourself unable to choose between several thousand railroad centers from which broad gauges radiate like the spokes in a wheel, and your ignorance of modern geography may be brought painfully home by discovering navigable rivers where you had supposed only creeks existed. In these matters, as in every thing else connected with your "new departure," consult _all_ the various sources of information within your reach. APPENDIX. CHAPTER SECOND. FURTHER INFORMATION FOR THE SPORTSMAN. APPENDIX. CONTENTS OF CHAPTER SECOND. PAGE HUNTING THE BUFFALO, 453 ANTELOPE HUNTING, 458 ELK HUNTING, 459 TURKEY HUNTING, 459 GENERAL REMARKS, 460 WHAT TO DO IF LOST ON THE PLAINS, 461 THE NEW FIELD FOR SPORTSMEN, 462 CHAPTER SECOND. _FURTHER INFORMATION FOR THE SPORTSMAN._ HUNTING THE BUFFALO.