Western United States

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Travel & Geography

Authors: Harold W. Fairbanks In Year : 1904

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Western United States

Preface and The Work of the Colorado River
A Trip into the Grand Cañon of the Colorado
How the Columbia Plateau was Made
The Cañons of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
An Oregon Glacier
Something About Earthquakes and Mountain Building
The Last Volcanic Eruptions in the United States
The Mud Volcanoes of the Colorado Desert
The History of a Coast Line
The Discovery of the Columbia River
The Great Basin and its Peculiar Lakes
Fremont's Adventures in the Great Basin
The Story of Great Salt Lake
The Skagit River
The Story of Lake Chelan
The Native Inhabitants of the Pacific Slope
The Story of Lewis and Clark
The Russians in California
Death Valley
The Cliff Dwellers and Their Descendants
The Life of the Desert
The Pony Express
How Climate and Physical Features Influenced the Settlements of the West
The Life of the Prospector
Gold and Gold-Mining
Copper-Mining
Coal and Petroleum
The Climate of the Pacific Slope
Something About Irrigation
The Location of the Cities of the Pacific Slope
The Forest Belt of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
The National Parks and Forest Reserves

"In preparation of this book the author has had in mind the needs of the upper grammar grades. The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic manner, but instead the attempt has been made to picture as graphically as may be some of its more striking and interesting physical features, and the influence which these features have exerted upon its discovery and settlement." (from the Preface of The Western United States)