Excerpt from The Golden Northwest The wondrous and unparalleled growth of the country to which the well deserved title of the "Golden Northwest" has been applied, although the development of railroad enterprise has brought it, or a greater portion of it, within a day's ride of Chicago, is even yet scarcely realized by those who dwell upon its borders. Chicago, the commercial entrepot of this great region, which as the converging point of many thousand miles of railroad and the great grain, lumber and provision mart of the world, has so vital an interest in the prosperity of this later Empire, knows but little of its resources and capabilities, its rich prairies and fields of waving grain, of the forests and rivers, the mining and agricultural wealth with which beneficent Nature has endowed the fairest and richest section of the whole United States. Thirty years ago a wilderness untrodden save by the trappers and hunters or the aboriginal owners of the soil whose tepees were doomed to give place first to log huts, then to substantial buildings and barns - whose hunting grounds were fated to resound with the shriek of the steam-whistle, and whose rude stone implements were to be supplanted by steam-plows and cultivators - the land which we call to-day Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, Dakota and Montana, has a history not only within the ken of living men but of men whose beards are yet untouched with the silver whiteness of age. In the rapid progress of the century, in spite of our newspapers and general literature, the telegraph to bear the news and the power press to print it, the march of empire presses steadily on comparatively unnoticed and unrecorded. Modern Americans are too busy making history to stop on their way to inscribe the records of their achievments in aught less ephemeral than the quotidian press of their country, and thus the most interesting facts, knowledge which to the student of a new generation will be of incalculable value, are in danger of going unrecorded altogether. It is to convey to the reader, who has not the time at his command in which to search through many books, such facts of interest are not readily accessible and may prove of real value, that this sketch of the resources of the Golden Northwest has been prepared. Nothing in history can compare with the rapidity of the growth of this magnificent country. Two hundred years served to extend the settlements of Massachusetts and Virginia over a strip of sea-board territory which to-day forms only a tithe of this vast Union. One-tenth of that time has given to civilization a new field larger than the whole territory occupied by white men at the time of the Revolutionary War. Nothing but the immense strides made by science during the past half-century has rendered this result possible. 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.

Excerpt from Reconnaissance of the Golden Northwest Poetic Prophesy Chicago's Lexicon A Famous Legend We Homologate New port Saratoga Lake George Baron Munchausen All Aboard. 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.

Excerpt from The Promise a Tale of the Great Northwest Young Carmody awoke to the realization of another day. The sun of mid-forenoon cast a golden rhombus on the thick carpet, and through the open windows the autumnal air, stirred by just the suspicion of a breeze, was wafted deliciously cool against his burning cheeks and throbbing temples. He gazed about the familiar confines of the room in puffy-eyed stupidity. There was a burning thirst at his throat, and he moistened his dry lips with a bitter-coated tongue. His mouth was lined with a brown slime of dead liquor, which nauseated him and sent the dull ache to his head in great throbbing waves. Upon a beautifully done mahogany table near the door stood a silver pitcher filled to the brim with clear, cold ice-water. 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.

Excerpt from The White Darkness, and Other Stories of the Great Northwest The afternoon light faded gradually till the tall pines cast no shadows, and the white landscape was gray. Whist ling faintly, the wind swayed the forest branches to and fro, now in long sweeps with strong puffs, then in short bowings. The leaden sky was dark and low, cold and repellent. Laflin filled his pipe slowly at the door of the N. W. M. P. Post, Onion Lake, his home. "Looks like snow," he muttered, his eyes roaming over the long distances beyond the forests. Little by little the pipe was filled; he lighted a match. Puff-puff, "I don't suppose (puff) that Jake will (puff) get back to-night (puff-puff-puff). Anyhow, 'I'll have supper by'n'by and take a run over to the Store." He stood there smoking quietly. Then the flakes of white came; dropping one by one at first, then falling in silent quantities, finally coming down in eddying and pirouetting myriads. 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.

Excerpt from A Daughter of the Northwest Father owned the big red sawmill that stood on the banks of the Columbia River, and its long row of small, many-paned windows looked out over the water. We two were quite alone in the world, for mother had died when I was nine years of age. 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.

Excerpt from The Heart of the Red Firs: A Story of the Pacific Northwest Before he could repeat it the teacher stepped between them. She had a bright, speaking face. Eyes that laughed or stormed on occasion, a mouth mobile, alluring, with charm of lurking merriment, and a chin delicately square, that lifted when she spoke, with an indescribable air of decision. 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.

Excerpt from The New Northwest By the fifth day the party had attained an elevation of feet, where the thermometer at noon marked Here' they found themselves in the midst of indescribable volcanic wonders. They were, however, notwithstanding their great elevation, in the midst of groves of pine and aspen. 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.