The West From The Census Of 1880

Author : Robert P. Porter
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ISBN 13 : 9781331879572
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book The West; From the Census of 1880 written by Robert P. Porter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The West; From the Census of 1880: A History of the Industrial, Commercial, Social, and Political Development of the States and Territories of the West From 1800 to 1880 It is the aim to present in this volume a concise and accurate history of the progress of the States lying between the Alleghany and the Rocky Mountains and north of the Ohio river, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory, of the three States of the Pacific Slope, and of all the Territories of the United States except Alaska, from the beginning of the present century to the close of 1880. This vast portion of our country, covering an area of over two million square miles, and now containing nearly two-fifths of the entire population of the United States, was at the beginning of the nineteenth century a wild and almost unexplored region. To-day, the Western States and Territories have a population of nearly twenty millions; produce all our surplus meat and grain, and one-third of our manufactured products. Large and influential cities have arisen with wonderful rapidity, and the financial and commercial, as well as the agricultural, mining and manufacturing interests of this part of the United States have become of vast importance both at home and abroad. While this extraordinary advancement of civilization and development of resources in the West have been a prolific theme for writers, until the praises of this fair land have been sung in the most distant parts of the earth, no attempt has heretofore been made to bring into the treatment of the subject the light derived from recent and trustworthy statistics. The well authenticated facts, and the conclusions which these suggest, as brought together in the present volume, will, it is hoped, prove of permanent value not only to politico-economic science but to all persons who want to know the West as it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.