PKEFACE. 



THE NEW WEST. 



I have .been a resident of the West for twelve years, 

 and my official duties have called me during that time 

 into nearly every State and Territory between the 

 Missouri and the Pacific Coast. Almost every valley, 

 hill, mountain, and pass of which I have written has 

 been ridden over by me on horseback, and I have 

 observed everywhere the unbounded capacity of the 

 West, not only for stock-growing, but farming, mining, 

 and manufacturing. To me the West is a never-ceasing 

 source of wonder, and I cannot imagine why people 

 remain in the over-crowded East, while so many lands 

 and chances are to the west of them. The West to-day 

 is not what it was yesterday, and it will not be to- 

 morrow what it is to-day. New discoveries, new 

 developments and improvements are constantly being 

 made, and a new West springing up. 



The West ! The mighty West ! That land where 

 the buffalo still roams and the wild savage dwells; 

 where the broad rivers flow and the boundless prairie 

 stretches away for thousands of miles ; where new States 

 are every year carved out and myriads of people find 



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