Across the Continent no. II life on the Plains /by Horace Greeley, 1861.

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Across the Continent no. II life on the Plains /by Horace Greeley, 1861.

Describes the area east of the Rockies known as the Great Plains, the Great Basin which lies between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada range, the valley of the Colorado, and animal life on both the Plains and the West.

13 p.; 25 cm.

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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...