Across the Continent

1865. Bowles, the Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican recounts his travels as a journalist with Colfax across the Continental U.S. in a series of letters and supplementary papers. Partial Contents: From Massachusetts to the Missouri; From the Missouri to the Platte; Through the Plains to the Rocky Mountains; The Rocky Mountains and Their Gold Mines; Of Persons, Not Things; Mormon Materialities; The Polygamy Question; The Silver Mines of Nevada; The Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees; Mining in California: Its Varieties, Results and Prospects; and The Voyage Home by Steamship and the Isthmus.