KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS
JUDITH B. GLAD and SUSAN STAFFORD produced this extract.

MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST.

A VIVID PORTRAYAL OF THE STUPENDOUS MARVELS IN
THE VAST WONDERLAND WEST OF
THE MISSOURI RIVER.

SIX BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME.

COMPRISING

MARVELS OF NATURE, MARVELS OF RACE, MARVELS OF
ENTERPRISE, MARVELS OF MINING, MARVELS
OF STOCK-RAISING, AND MARVELS
OF AGRICULTURE.

GRAPHICALLY AND TRUTHFULLY DESCRIBED

BY

WILLIAM M. THAYER,
AUTHOR OF OVER TWENTY STANDARD WORKS, INCLUDING "THE WHITE HOUSE
SERIES OF BIOGRAPHIES," AND "YOUTHS' HISTORY OF THE
REBELLION," IN 4 VOLS.

ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FINE ENGRAVINGS AND MAPS.


NORWICH, CONN.:
THE HENRY BILL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1890.

(Sold only by subscription. Electrotyping by J. S. Cushing & Co., Boston.
Presswork by Berwick & Smith, Boston.)


CONTENTS OF EXTRACT.

INTRODUCTION.

MARVELS OF ENTERPRISE. Including an account of three brothers making their way to the gold fields of California, with ghastly results...hardships and sufferings of the pioneers, described in the story of Mrs. Augusta Tabor...the fate of the buffalo, and the depredations of the Indians...and a description of the Pony Express and freighting teams.

MARVELS OF STOCK-RAISING. A complete explanation of the stock-raising business and how to undertake it, including the story of one cow's family.

MARVELS OF AGRICULTURE. An exposition on the vast agricultural resources of the New West, how these resources are developed, and the principal place of Kansas, the hub of the American Republic, in the production of corn, wheat, and honey.

CONCLUSION.

AUTHORS CONSULTED. A comprehensive list of the works consulted by the author in his composition of this extensive description of the New West.

GUIDE TO ILLUSTRATIONS.


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