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Title: The Great West: its attractions and resources. Containing a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ... by Prof. F.V. Hayden ... Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Brodix, Charles R., (from old catalog) pub Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
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Publisher: Bloomington, Ill., C.R. Brodix
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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A DEAD INDIAN CHIEF LYING IN STATE, ALASKA.
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EASTPORT, STICKEEN VILLAGE, FORT WRANGELL, ALASKA. ALASKA AND ITS INHABITANTS. 473 the waves that break on either base—Akuten, Makushin, and others, arebelching out fire and smoke. GLACIERS. This is the great glacier-region. From Bute Inlet to Unimak Passnearly all the deep gulches have glaciers, some of which are vastly greaterand grander than any glacier of the Alps. The American student needno longer go abroad to study glacial action. In one of the gulches ofMount Fairweather is a glacier that extends fifty miles to the sea, whereit breaks off, a perpendicular ice-wall three hundred feet high and eightmiles broad. Thirty-five miles above Wrangell, on the Stickeen River,between two mountains three thousand feet high, is an immense glacierforty miles long, and at the base four to five miles across, and variouslyestimated at from five hundred to one thousand feet high or deep. Oppo-site this glacier, just across the river, are large boiling springs. TheIndians regard this glacier as

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