Excerpt from The Heart of the Continent: An Historical and Descriptive Treatise for Business Men, Home Seekers, and Tourists, of the Advatages, Resources, and Scenery of the Great West At Omaha, the Shadowland of legend and romance of less than forty years ago, he hears of steamboats running regularly two thousand miles further up the Missouri and six hundred up the Yellowstone; of navigating the Saskatchewan, Winnipeg and the Lake of the Woods, and other streams whose names he never heard before, flowing thousands of miles into Hudson's Bay, Puget Sound and the Arctic Ocean. He hears of harbors like those of Portland, Vancouver, San Francisco, San Diego and Guaymas, in which all the commerce of the world may safely ride at anchor. 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.