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Project Gutenberg's The Western United States, by Harold Wellman Fairbanks This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Western United States A Geographical Reader Author: Harold Wellman Fairbanks Release Date: August 13, 2007 [EBook #22302] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WESTERN UNITED STATES *** Produced by Robert J. Hall [Illustration: THE TWINS, BLUFF CITY, UTAH The distance from the bottom of the cliff to the top of the erosion columns is 275 feet. _Frontispiece_] THE WESTERN UNITED STATES _A GEOGRAPHICAL READER_ BY HAROLD WELLMAN FAIRBANKS, PH.D. AUTHOR OF "STORIES OF OUR MOTHER EARTH," "HOME GEOGRAPHY," "STORIES OF ROCKS AND MINERALS," "PHYSIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA," ETC. BOSTON, U.S.A. D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS 1904 PREFACE In the 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. Those subjects have been presented which have more than local interest and are illustrative of world-wide principles. Clear conceptions of the earth and man's relation to it are not gained by general statements as readily as by the comprehensive study of concrete examples. Nowhere outside of the Cordilleran region are to be found so remarkable illustrations of the growth and destruction of physical features, or so clear examples of the control which physical features exercise over the paths of exploration, settlement, and industrial development. The fact that the West furnishes a wealth of material for geography teaching has long been recognized in a general way, although there has been but little attempt to present this material in a form suitable for the use of schools. The illustrations are, with few exceptions, from the author's own photographs, and the descriptions are made up
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