Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Journey Through Kansas; Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources; The Results of a Tour Made in the Autumn of 1854
Our first intention, after our return from Kansas, was to present only a brief formal report of the principal facts connected with the geography, soil, climate, productions, and resources Of the country. But we soon found that the material we had collected was ample for a work of a different character; and it was the Opinion of judicious persons with whom we consulted, that the interests of the cause would be best promoted by weaving this material into a cheap book of a somewhat popular caste, by which a wider circulation could be given to the facts themselves.
This course was decided upon, after consultation with the Officers of the Societies by whom we were sent out, and the statements of the book have the official sanction of the Commissioners.
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