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THIS preliminary field report makes us acquainted with a vast tract of territory hitherto scarcely known, save to the more adventurous squatters and to the various tribes of Indians who have gradually been driven farther and farther west by the wonderful growth of the United States populations, fed as they are annually by streams of English, Irish, Scotch, and German emigrants. Unfortunately for the Red skins, they are not only hemmed in on the one side by the United States, and on the other by the equally vigorous growth of California and its vast mining and agricultural population; but their territory, only hitherto invaded by the Mormons and the “Pony-Dispatch,”is now cut in twain by the great Pacific Railroad, which, in its course, has sent forth geological reconnaissances right and left, discovering timber here, coal there, building stone in this spot, mines in that, until there is no space left for them save in the happy hunting-grounds above, to which they are fast going, aided by revolvers, alcohol, and disease.
Preliminary Field Report of the United States Geological Survey of Colorado and New Mexico.
Conducted under the authority of the Hon. J. D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior. By F. V. Hayden., United States Geologist. 8vo. pp. 155. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869.)
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W., H. Preliminary Field Report of the United States Geological Survey of Colorado and New Mexico . Nature 4, 24 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004024a0
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