Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sketch of the Geology of the Country About the Head-Waters of the Missouri and Yellow Stone Rivers
Under the first division of my subject I will take up the mountain elevations as they appeared in their detached portions along our route. It is now well known that the term Rocky Mountains is quite general in its application including a vast number of more or less important ranges of mountains, which when examined in detail seem to have been elevated with very little regularity and in many instances to be but slightly connec ted, but when viewed in the aggregate to present a trend nearly northwest and southeast. Before reaching the main range we find along the eastern slope many detached minor elevations showing the wide geographical area under which the elevating forces acted.
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