GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS

ISBN: 9780267685714 Géneros: RG Sinópsis: Excerpt from Guide for Emigrants Containing Sketches of Illinois Missouri and the Adjacent PartsWithin a few months past the author has received more than one hundred letters calling for information in detail on all those subjects about which a man wishes to inform himself before he decides upon a removal or which may aid him on his journey and which may enable him successfully to surmount the difficulties Of an untried land To answer these was impossible The only feasi ble method to afford general satisfaction was to write a book Many valuable works on the western coun try or portions Of it have been made already but none that seemed exactly suited to the present state Of things Besides what was truth eight or ten years since is no longer truth Wide and rapid changes have been made Extensive tracts Of country have been sprinkled over with a population formed into counties and begin to show marks of industry and enterprise which ten years since were the hunting grounds of the savage or only occasionally visited by the white trapper or hunter What was then frontierAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart 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