The Western United States
by Harold W. Fairbanks
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman), 1860-1952
- Title
- The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
- Credits
- Produced by Robert J. Hall
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
- Subject
- Physical geography -- West (U.S.)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 22302
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22302
- Release Date
- August 13, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE WORK OF THE COLORADO RIVER
- 5.A TRIP INTO THE GRAND CAÑON OF THE COLORADO
- 6.HOW THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU WAS MADE
- 7.THE CAÑONS OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS
- 8.AN OREGON GLACIER
- 9.SOMETHING ABOUT EARTHQUAKES AND MOUNTAIN BUILDING
- 10.THE LAST VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
- 11.THE MUD VOLCANOES OF THE COLORADO DESERT
- 12.THE HISTORY OF A COAST LINE
- 13.THE DISCOVERY OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER
- 14.THE GREAT BASIN AND ITS PECULIAR LAKES
- 15.FRÉMONT'S ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT BASIN
- 16.THE STORY OF GREAT SALT LAKE
- 17.THE SKAGIT RIVER
- 18.THE STORY OF LAKE CHELAN
- 19.THE NATIVE INHABITANTS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE
- 20.THE STORY OF LEWIS AND CLARK
- 21.THE RUSSIANS IN CALIFORNIA
- 22.DEATH VALLEY
- 23.THE CLIFF DWELLERS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
- 24.THE LIFE OF THE DESERT
- 25.THE PONY EXPRESS
- 26.HOW CLIMATE AND PHYSICAL FEATURES INFLUENCED THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST
- 27.THE LIFE OF THE PROSPECTOR
- 28.GOLD AND GOLD-MINING
- 29.COPPER-MINING
- 30.COAL AND PETROLEUM
- 31.THE CLIMATE OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE
- 32.SOMETHING ABOUT IRRIGATION
- 33.THE LOCATION OF THE CITIES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE
- 34.THE FOREST BELT OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS
- 35.THE NATIONAL PARKS AND FOREST RESERVES
- 36.THE HEATH READERS — REVISED AND ILLUSTRATED — AMERICA'S STORY FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN — Science. — Elementary Science. — Heath's Home and School Classics.
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