Michigan Historical Reprint Series

An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859. Michigan Historical Reprint Series

FROM NEW YORK TO KANSAS.

ATCHISON, Kansas, Mny 15, 1859.

1 LKFT New York by Erie Railroad on Monday even-
ing, 9th inst., just as our fortnight of bright, hot, plant-
ing weather was closing. Two hours later, the gathered
clouds burst upon us in a rain which continued through
the night, though the city was not refreshed by it till
some hours later. We had glimpses of sunshine as we
skirted the southern shore of Lake Erie on Wednesday,
and some more after a heavy shower at Chicago on
Thursday; beside these, cloudy skies, easterly winds,
and occasional rain, have been my portion since I bade
adieu to the hot, dusty streets of New York. But it is
breaking away as I write, and I hope to see Kansas, for
the first time, under skies which image her sunny future
rather than her stormy past.

Coming up the Erie Eoad, I tried a " sleeping-car"
for the third time, and not very successfully. We all
" retired" at ten o'clock, with a fair allowance of open
windows and virtuous resolutions ; but the rain poured.

Table of Contents

AN OVERLAND JOURNEY.

From New York to Kansas, 7

Notes on Kansas, 20

More Notes on Kansas, 35

More of Kansas, 48

Summing up on Kansas, 61

On the Plains, 71

The Home of the Buffalo, 80

Last of the Buffalo, 86

The American Desert, 98

Good Bye to the Desert, 107

The Kansas Gold Diggings, 115

The Plains The Mountains, 128

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