"This very charming volume is so exquisitely gotten up, the scheme is so perfect, the seventeen writers have done their work with such historical accuracy and with such literary skill, the illustrations are so abundant and so artistic, that all must rejoice that Mr. Powell ever attempted to make the historical pilgrimages."--_Journal of Education._ Historic Towns of the Western States Edited by LYMAN P. POWELL. With introduction by R.G. THWAITES. With 218 illustrations. Large 8^o, gilt top. (By mail $3.25) _net_ $3.00 CONTENTS: =Detroit=, by Silas Farmer; =Chicago=, by Hon. Lyman T. Gage; =St. Louis=, by F.M. Crunden; =Monterey=, by Harold Balce; =San Francisco=, by Edwin Markham; =Portland=, by Rev. Thomas L. Cole; =Madison=, by Prof. R.G. Thwaites; =Kansas City=, by Charles S. Gleed; =Cleveland=, by President Charles F. Thwing; =Cincinnati=, by Hon. M.E. Ailes; =Marietta=, by Muriel C. Dyar; =Des Moines=, by Dr. F.I. Herriot; =Indianapolis=, by Hon. Perry S. Heath; =Denver=, by J.C. Dana; =Omaha=, by Dr. Victor Rosewater; =Los Angeles=, by Florence E. Winslow; =Salt Lake City=, by Prof. James E. Talmage; =Minneapolis= and =St. Paul=, by Hon. Charles B. Elliott; =Santa Fé=, by Dr. F.W. Hodge; =Vincennes=, by W.H. Smith. G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York and London * * * * * Transcriber's notes Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired. Inconsistent hyphenation has been repaired. The caret character "^" is used to denote a superscript. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Index entry added to Table of Contents. Page 205 prices lots as ".$155 an acre"; research shows this value to be "$1.55 an acre". In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book. All advertising material has been moved to the end of the text. End of Project Gutenberg's Historic Towns of the Western States, by Various