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Map
of the Routes of the Union Pacific Railroads with their
Eastern Connections. By W. J. Keeler. November, 1867.
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Title
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Contents
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| INTRODUCTORY
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The
Territory beyond the Mississippi -- The two Great Railroads
-- The Excursion
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Arrival
at Clear Creek, the end of the finished Road -- Meeting
of the Excursionists at Clear Creek -- Ellsworth -- Arrival
at Fort Harker -- Curious Rocks -- Prairie Grass -- Country
last passed over -- Fort Harker -- Another Meeting --
Leave-taking -- Expedition to Pond Creek
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II. |
Tornadoes
and Rain -- Party to Pond Creek -- A Ranch -- Solidity
of the Earth -- Wells -- Length of the Smoky Hill
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III. |
Continuance
of the Flood -- Change in the Soil -- Buffalo Grass dying
out -- Wild Plums and other Fruit
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IV. |
The
Flood -- The Question of Routes
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Prairie
Dogs -- Rambling Observations -- Enterprise of Chicago
-- Connection of Chicago with this State and Road
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Water
falling -- A New Hotel -- Return of two of the Pond Creek
Party -- Observations upon the Country above
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Arrival
at Lawrence -- Flood in the Smoky Hill and Kansas
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VIII. |
Trees
in Kansas
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IX. |
Mineral
Resources of Kansas -- Magnesian Limestone, its abundance
and excellence as a Building Material -- Other Varieties
of Stone -- Marble -- General Remarks
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Mineral
Resources of Kansas, continued -- Coal -- Salt -- Gypsum
-- Alum -- Iron
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XI. |
Towns
in Kansas -- Leavenworth -- Rivalry with Kansas City --
Lawrence -- Its Location, Beauty and History -- Swift
Retribution -- Brief Mention of an old Friend
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XII. |
Towns
in Kansas, continued [Atchison, Kansas City, Wyandotte,
Topeka, Waumega (Wamego), Lecompton, Manhattan]
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XIII. |
Towns
in Kansas, concluded [Junction City, Solomon City, Salina]
-- The Neosho Valley -- Seasons in Kansas -- A word to
such as may think of Emigrating
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XIV. |
Education
in Kansas -- The Free School System -- State Normal School
-- Peculiar Mode of Teaching -- State Agricultural College
-- University of Kansas -- Equality and Commingling of
the Sexes in the Higher Schools
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XV. |
Return
of the Pond Creek Party -- The Line to Denver -- Pine
Timber -- Coal -- The Mountain Snows must be avoided --
The Route and Distance to New Mexico -- Superiority of
the more Southern Route -- Surveying Party
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General
Subject of Routes discussed -- Description of the Valley
of the Platte -- The Region between the Heads of the
Platte and the Sierra Nevada -- Great Utility of both
Roads
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LETTER
XVI.
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The
Route beyond Kansas -- Fertility of the Country on the
Arkansas and Purgatoire Rivers -- Immense Deposits of
Coal -- Pine Timber -- New Mexico, its Minerals and other
Resources
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XVII. |
Arizona
-- California
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XVIII. |
Length
of the respective Routes -- Latitude and Longitude of
the Principal Points
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XIX. |
Eastern
Connections -- Table of Distances
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XX. |
Branch
Roads -- To Galveston from three points in Kansas -- To
Denver -- Down the Rio Grande into Mexico -- To Guaymas
-- To San Diego -- Effect upon Mexico -- General Remarks
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Will
it Pay?
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XXII. |
The
March of Empire |
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Later
Facts and Development |
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Advertisements:
York Car Works -- Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division
-- Northern Missouri Railway
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Advertisements:
St. Louis and Pacific Railroad -- Great Central Route
-- United States Express Company |
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