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Letter From Washington to Missouri Tour of the West
A Kansas City to Seattle travelogue chronicles a Missouri family’s May to June 1874 journey via train steamship and river steamer. The writer details scenery from the Rockies to Puget Sound, notes irrigation driven crops in California, Oregon, and Washington, and offers a cautious assessment of settlement viability and farming in the Northwest.
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Washington
Lincoln County
Skaak
Wears County
Wasamutox Yeasts
Miesouri
Cy. Thompson
Frant
Withington
Farmouth
Bayard
St. Louis
Kaneas City
St. Charles
Montgomery City
Kansas City
Missouri
Iowa
Missouri River Valley
Cornell Mutt
Omaha
San Francisco
Pullman Palace
Ogden
Great Platte Valley
Nebraska
Rocky Mountains
Rockies
Laratule
Green River
Weber River
One Thousand Mile Tree
Castle Rock
Hanging Rock
Echo Canon
Weber Canon
Devil's Sildle
Idovil'a
Great
Salt Lake Valley
River Palace
Salt Lake
Akiali
Humboldt Mountains
Athal
Lke
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Cape
Smoberle
Sacramento
Sacramento City
Coast
Ajax
Golden Gate
Jmnd
Columbia River
Portland
Astoria
Oregon
Columbia
Astroria
Stount Hood
Willamette River
California
Beaver
Kalama
Tacoma
Puget Sound
Sound
Iere
Northern Pacific Railyroad
Seattle
J. J. Libby
La-Conner
Ian
Washington Territory
Greenwich
Strait of San Juan de Fuca
Pacific Ocean
Eset
Skagit