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George B. Thayer
PREFACE. 3
I. Westward Ho! The beginning of a Seven Months’ Wheeling Tour across the Continent. 5
II. Through the Highlands of the Hudson River. 9
III. Up the Catskills and along the Erie Canal. 16
IV. At Niagara and along Lake Erie. 26
V. Through Ohio and Indiana. 36
VI. At Chicago. 46
VII. Across the Mississippi. 56
VIII. Across the Missouri. 66
IX. At the Base of the Rockies. 76
X. On Pike’s Peak. 84
XI. Back to Denver. 96
XII. Across the Plains. 105
XIII. Among the Mormons. 121
XIV. At the Big Trees. 132
XV. In the Yosemite Valley. 143
XVI. On the Shores of the Pacific. 153
XVII. With the Veterans. 163
XVIII. Monterey and the Geysers. 171
XIX. Out on the Pacific. 179
XX. At Shoshone Falls. 187
XXI. In the Yellowstone Park. 193
XXII. Through the Black CaÑon and the Royal Gorge. 202
XXIII. A Visit to Prudence Crandall. 209
XXIV.

TO YOUNG MEN
Who Contemplate Life Insurance,
THE
Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Company
OFFERS:

A Policy liberal, just, and definite in all its terms and conditions:

A Policy which gives to each holder the entire and just benefit of his own payments, under all circumstances:

A Policy whose maximum cost is known at the start, and cannot be more than the premium charged therein:

A Policy which at the end of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, etc., years, may be surrendered for a cash sum stated upon the policy:

A Policy which participates in the surplus earned, which there are no stockholders to share:

An unsurpassed record for prudence and care in all departments of its business:

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An unequaled record for economy in management:

In short: Insurance that insures, at the very lowest cost consistent with absolute protection and security to every policy-holder.

HOME OFFICE: HARTFORD, CONN.

  • Jacob L. Greene, Prest.
  • John M. Taylor, Vice-Prest.
  • W. G. Abbot, Secretary.
  • Daniel H. Wells, Actuary.

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Ætna Insurance Co.
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
INCORPORATED A. D. 1819.

CASH CAPITAL, $4,000,000.00
TOTAL ASSETS, January 1, 1887, 9,568,839.56
NET SURPLUS, January 1, 1887, 3,450,221.37

L. J. HENDEE, President.
J. GOODNOW, Sec’y. WM. B. CLARKE, Asst. Sec’y.

Agencies in all the principal towns and cities in the United States.

The Ætna stands confessedly at the head of the Fire Insurance Companies of America, if not of the World. In the sixty-eight years since it began business it has paid over $60,000,000 in losses, going through the trying ordeals of the great Chicago and Boston conflagrations and paying every claim promptly. So strong is its present financial condition that the company could go through another Chicago fire without disturbing a dividend.

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