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The Western United States

by Harold W. FAIRBANKS (1860 - )

"In preparation of this book the author has had in mind the needs of the upper grammar grades. The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic manner, but instead the attempt has been made to picture as graphically as may be some of its more striking and interesting physical features, and the influence which these features have exerted upon its discovery and settlement." (from the Preface of The Western United States)

Listen next episodes of The Western United States:
Coal and Petroleum , Copper-Mining , Gold and Gold-Mining , How Climate and Physical Features Influenced the Settlements of the West , Something About Irrigation , The Climate of the Pacific Slope , The Forest Belt of the Sierra Nevada Mountains , The Life of the Prospector , The Location of the Cities of the Pacific Slope , The National Parks and Forest Reserves