Across the Continent From the Pacific to the Atlantic by Warren B. Johnson
1887 First Edition, John Cort Publisher, printer & bookbinder, Webster Massachusetts, octavo, 369 pp.
Good condition with light foxing to endpapers. Split at one signature but binding is tight. See photos.
The world is full of books of travel, adventure and romance, which have covered almost every conceivable portion of the known world; most of which have been written by men of culture, leisure and wealth. Every land has been visited, every tribe and kindred. Of people have been portrayed, and the people made richer in the stores of knowledge derived from their perusal. In the accompanying pages will be found a detail of travel, novel in its character, performed by a common man, of but ordinary schooling, of a journey across the American continent, overland and on foot, accompanied by a horse, wagon, cow and dog. Perhaps, such a journey will never be taken again; especially, with a prospect of meeting with such impediments as beset his path from the nature of the roads, the means of crossing unbridged rivers, and the prospect of violence from the beasts of the forest, and the untamed nature Of the Indian. In this volume, no attempt has been made to give a full description of the various States passed through, or an elaborate account of the products of agriculture, mining or manufacturing accomplished in the western wilds of the American nation. Nor has an attempt been made to eloquently describe the habits and customs of the people. The story of his travels is told in his own language, as near as possible, to make a continuous narrative. Some of his descriptions of scenes passed through are unique, told in as few common-place words as possible.
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