PREFACE. Xi 



Mountains will be sought by thousands annually, as 

 a favorite lield for sport and recreation. 



Another and still larger class, it is hoped, will 

 find much of interest and value in the following 

 pages. From every state in the Union, people are 

 constantly passing westward. We found emigrant 

 wagons on spots from which the Indians had just 

 removed their wigwams. Multitudes more are now 

 on the way, with the earnest purpose of founding 

 homes and, if possible, of finding fortunes. In 

 order to aid this class, as well as the sportsman, I 

 have gathered in an appendix such additional infor- 

 mation as may be useful to both. 



The scientific details of our trip will probably be 

 published in proper form and time, by the savans 

 interested. In regard to these, my object has been 

 simply to chronicle such matters as made an im- 

 pression upon my own mind, being content with 

 what cream might be gathered by an amateur's 

 skimming, while the more bulky milk should be 

 saved in capacious scientific buckets. 



Professor Cope, the well known naturalist, of the 

 Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia, received for ex- 

 amination and classification the most valuable 

 fossils we obtained, and to him I am indebted for 

 a large amount of most interesting and valuable 



