Excerpt from All the Western States and Territories, From the Alleghanies to the Pacific, and From the Lakes to the Gulf: Containing Their History From the Earliest Times, With Local History, Incidents of Pioneer Life, Military Events, Biographical Sketches, Combined With Full Geographical Descriptions of the Different States, Territories, Cities, and Towns The changed condition of a part of our country, united to the double expense of book publishing, compels us to alter the plan, and to issue the original work in two independent, separate books, with such changes in the materials as are demanded by the lapse of time and events. By this means a choice of either will be given to. Such limited finances as can not grasp both. The one book will comprise The Atlantic States, North and South 5 the other is the present volume, The Whole West. The first-named will be preceded by an introduction giving the general history of the country, when will follow, in order, all the sea-board States, originally British colonies, and the old Spanish colony of Florida, the most ancient of them all, but of feeble nursing and of trivial growth. The book you hold comprises all of that immense territory comprehended under the term The Great West. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.