The Western Wonder Land Half Hours in the Western United States
The Western Wonder Land Half Hours in the Western United States
Harold W Harold Wellman Fairbanks
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io8 THE WESTERN UNITED STATES They met with no great difficulties until they had gone as far south as Klamath Lake. " From this point, " Fre- mont says, " our course was intended to be about south- east to a reported lake called Mary's, at some days' journey in the Great Basin, and thence, still on southeast to the r\ H&sb-'! : 3?-WRr- j 1 '-. '^/^, //'*'^, /, ^ Vx/ ' * ^^. -; FIG. 47. MAP OF A PORTION OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA, MADE IN 1826 Showing the Buenaventura River reputed Buenaventura (g...ood chance) River, which has had a place on so many maps, and countenanced the belief in the existence of a great river flowing from the Rocky Mountains to the Bay of San Francisco. " Figure 47 shows one of the maps to which Fremont refers. How interesting it is ! Compare it with a good map in your geography and you will readily see that it is FREMONTS ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT BASIN 109 very misleading. The Sierra Nevada, one of the greatest mountain ranges in the United States, hardly appears, while traced directly across the map is the great Buena- ventura River which Fremont expected to find and follow eastward toward its source near the Rocky Mountains.
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