Excerpt from Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth, Vol. 1: Historical Character Study Taking, then, California as the primary point, and the great gold discovery as the coalescing in uence of this freak of evolution, the combination of events continuing into adjacent parts, as illustrated by the quickly following discoveries of precious metal on Fraser river, in Washington Idaho and Montana, in Colorado and Nevada, and elsewhere, the develop ment of the great cattle interest in the Rocky mountain region, from Texas through Colorado Wyoming and Montana to British Columbia - a single glance at the existing state of affairs before this epoch, and at what followed it, overwhelms us with a sense of the marvels which have been aecom plished within this short period of time by men most of whom are yet among the living. 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."