Excerpt from Over the Plains, on the Mountains, or Kansas, Colorado and the Rocky Mountains: Agriculturally, Mineralogically and Aesthetically Described During the excursion, I took full notes of everything that fell under my Observation, and also of facts elicited from conversations with those familiar with the Mountains; not with the remotest intention however, of perpetrating the infliction of a book upon the patient public, but for my own gratification and satisfaction. After my return home, I wrote out a few pages of the notes for the Sunday number of one of our leading dailies. 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.