OR,

A TOUR BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS.

EMBRACING

OUTLINES OF WESTERN LIFE AND SCENERY; SKETCHES OF

THE PRAIRIES, RIVERS, ANCIENT MOUNDS, EARLY

SETTLEMENTS OF THE FRENCH, ETC., ETC.

by

Edmund Elag8, 1815-1890

"If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to
be a competent judge."-IZAAK WALTON.

"I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ''Tis all
barren.'"-STERNE.

"Chacun a son stile; le mien, comme vous voyez, n'est pas laconique."-
ME. DE SEVIGNE.

IN TWO VOLUME S.

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS,

NO. 82 CLIFF STREET.

.......................

1838.

M.ET

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
143503

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
1500

[Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.]

TO ONE

AT WHOSE SOLICITATION THESE VOLUMES WERE COM

MENCED, AND WITH WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT

THEY HAVE BEEN COMPLETED

TO MY SISTER LUCY

ARE THEY AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.