Lanterna Rally

Author: A. K. McClure

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781332349166

Excerpt from Three Thousand Miles: Through the Rocky Mountains In presenting these letters to the public in book form, I do not claim for them any measure of literary merit. They were written hastily, during a journey of three thousand miles through the Rocky Mountains, and often in the midst of annoyances not favorable to epistolary perfection. The letters embrace two distinct series: one published in the New York "Tribune," and the other published in the "Franklin Repository," which will account for the treatment of the same topics in different letters, although always substantially varied. I need hardly say that they were not written with the design to collect them in book form; and now, when the wide-spread interest felt in the rapidly growing Great West seems to demand reliable information of the people, resources, progress, and destiny of the Rocky Mountain Territories, I find it impossible to revise the letters so as to conform them to the exactions of the critical without depriving them of much of their freshness, and, probably, some of their usefulness. Fully conscious of their many imperfections, I have consented to their publication only because I hope thereby to afford, in some humble degree, the long-delayed justice to the pioneers of the West, and, at the same time, give some little additional strength to the growing disposition to make the boundless mineral and agricultural wealth of the Territories available to benefit our common country. 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.