Excerpt from To the Rockies and Beyond: Or a Summer on the Union Pacific Railroad and Branches Since the first appearance of "To The Rockies and Beyond" in 1878, developments in the wide field outlined in its pages have bordered upon the marvelous. The name Leadville has thrilled all America and claimed attention from lands beyond the seas, while our far Northwest, where Orient now greets Occident, beams with a life unthought of twelve months ago. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington are the grand magnets upon our far western area to-day. Their unparalleled progress during the past year, and the constantly growing, earnest demand for intelligence concerning them is sufficient excuse for the enlargement and revision of this work. Nearly 100 fresh pages are added, special attention being called to those devoted to Leadville, Montana, and the Snake and Salmon River Regions. Reiterating a cherished desire to pleasantly introduce all classes of readers to the great region lying beyond the Missouri, to reliably point out the way for tens of thousands of inquiring homeseekers and tourists and to convey an idea of the glories of far west climate and scenery or the delightful experiences of mountaineering, the writer also wishes each voyageur as rich a fruition of pleasure in journeyings toward sunset as he himself enjoyed in his second "Summer on the Union Pacific Railroad and Branches." 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.