With Pack and Rifle in the Far South-West

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Excerpt from With Pack and Rifle in the Far South-West: Adventures in New Mexico, Arizona, and Central America, A Book for BoysThere are even greater errors than this. The writer pos sesses two maps, published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, in which such glaring mistakes occur as locating the State of Nebraska in the area occupied by Montana, and representing New Mexico as lying north of Arizona, and separated from it by the 34th degree of latitude. These two latter sections lie contiguous east and west, their boundaries being coincident with the line of longitude Such maps are of little utility.The vast regions lying west of the Missouri and of the fron tiers of the States of Arkansas and Louisiana, and north of the 3lst degree of latitude, are represented by a blank, broken only by the names of the chief rivers, or of the military posts of the United States Government. Due allowance, however, must be made for the mushroom growth of towns and settlements in the West. A year has proved quite suffi cient in many instances to change the aspect of the country. Railways have extended themselves over the face of the land almost with the rapidity of growth of the gossamers we see glancing on our lawns in the morning sunlight, carrying civilization in their track, and banishing alike the romance and the game of the great wilderness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.