STEAM TRIP IN KENTUCKY - - PROTECTING A LOCOMOTIVE FROM - HOW INDIANA GOT HER FIRST SNOWFLAKES - FORBIDS A RAILWAY TO ENTER ITS LIMITS EARLY ROADS OF THE TIONS OF 1857.... FRAUDS GENERAL VIEW OF TRAVEL CONDITIONS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI JUST - THE OVERRUNNING OF THE WEST — LAST PHASE OF A TASK COMMENCED MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES BEFORE AN OUTBURST OF HUMAN ENERGY AND AMBITION OUR TWO VIEWS OF THE MIGRATIONS THEIR WORLD IMPORTANCE BOONE'S INFLUENCE STILL ACTIVE VALUE OF THE MISSOURI RIVER AS AN EARLY ROUTE INTO THE THE RELATION OF THE INDIANS OF THE WEST TO TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAVEL RED PEOPLES NATIVE TO THE REGION BEYOND THE MIS- SISSIPPI STILL RETAINED THEIR SELF-RULE AND OWNED MUCH OF THE LAND WHEN THE GREAT OVERLAND MIGRATIONS BEGAN DIANS TRANSPLANTED FROM THEIR EASTERN HOMES ALSO FORMED - ..1161 THE CAUCASIAN CONQUEST OF THE OREGON COUNTRY FLOYD AND - - WESTERN DESERTS OF SAND RACE ANTAGONISM APPEARS BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI WAGONS REACH THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS INFLUENCES THAT DIRECTED PUBLIC ATTENTION TO THE NORTH- WEST WHITE WOMEN FIRST CROSS THE CONTINENT BONNE- VILLE AND WHITMAN TAKE WAGONS ACROSS THE ROCKIES NEW ENGLAND'S PART ORIGIN AND ORGANIZATION OF THE GREAT THE SOUTH PASS ROUTE TO THE FAR WEST A TRAPPER WHO WAS ALSO - - WHITMAN JOINS THE MIGRATION OF 1843 WHIT- OF JOHNSON AND WINTER'S LOST BOOK THEIR ACCOUNT OF THE BLOOD COUNCIL AT WAIILATPU THE TWO TRAVELLERS DESCRIBE THE MORMON OVERLAND PILGRIMAGE OF 1846-1848 - - .1213 LED TO IT EXPULSION OF THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS FROM NAUVOO COMMENCEMENT OF THE MOST PRETENTIOUS GROUP-MIGRATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY LIFE IN THE LOG HUTS, SOD HOVELS AND CAVES ATTITUDE OF THE INDIANS A WINTER OF SUFFERING MARCH OF THE ADVANCE PARTY IN 1847 DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY TAKING THE NEWS BACK ΤΟ THE MISSOURI ANOTHER WINTER IN THE THE CRY OF “GOLD”. ITS EFFECT CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA DUR- THE SUFFERING OF THE DONNER PARTY NOT TYPICAL OF CARAVAN TRAVEL TO CALIFORNIA THE ROAD BECOMES CROWDED NARRATIVE, SHOWING THE EXPERIENCES OF THE MARCHERS FROM 1849 ONWARD DIARY OF JAMES ABBEY HE AND HIS COM- FROM INDEPENDENCE AND SALT LAKE CITY THE IDEA OF A RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC ONE FINAL TASK NECES- OREGON MIGRATIONS EFFECTS OF THE EVENTS OF 1848 - THE ....... ANOTHER CAUSE THAT HELD BACK THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAIL- FUSION OF EXISTING GAUGES LINCOLN'S DECISION CONGRESS SUMMARY OF PRESENT CONDITIONS... 1357 Key to Abbreviations A list of the abbreviations used in the technical descriptions of the engraving, size, origin, date and other features of the original prints, drawings, manuscripts, documents, broadsides, maps, and similar material reproduced for illustrative purposes is here given. The technical description, in each case, follows the general description in the List of Colored Plates or List of Illustrations. Names of countries other than America are not abbreviated. If the engraving was originally published in Germany, France, England, Scotland, Holland, Sweden, or elsewhere, it is so stated. In any case wherein the original engraving or drawing had a blank margin of considerable or unnecessary width, a part of the blank paper surrounding the drawing or engraved surface has been omitted in the photographic reproduction, as an economy of space. In a few instances wherein only one detail of the original engraving or map required display, that feature alone has been reproduced and the irrelevant part of the original is not shown. Such cases are indicated in the technical descriptions by the words "Section of." Save for the exceptions stated, the material used for illustration is shown in original form and existing condition. List of Colored Plates 8vo. An American stage wagon of 1780-1790. Frontispiece: Vol. 1 Deck plan of an early American paddle-wheel steam- Page 318 319 An amended deck plan of the same boat. - L. F. O. ... Page Burning of the steamboat New Jersey. A Catastrophe - ... Page L. F. Sten An example of Erie Canal wall-paper. 411 650 Frontispiece: Vol. III Passenger trains on an inclined plane of an early Amer- 791 920 color . Page The collision on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, near Philadelphia, in 1856. A Catastrophe Broadside. F. Lith. Col. Amer. 1856. Original colors... .. Frontispiece: Vol. IV Race between the Mississippi River steamboats R. E. Lee and Natchez. F. Lith. Col. Amer. 1870. — Original colors ... Page 1242 .Page 1356 An observation car on the first transcontinental rail- |