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Title: Our western empire, or, The new West beyond the Mississippi : the latest and most comprehensive work on the states and territories west of the Mississippi : containing the fullest and most complete description, from official and other authentic sources, of the geography, geology and natural history (with abundant incidents and adventures), the climates, soil, agriculture, the mineral and mining products, the crops, and herds and flocks, the social condition, educational and religious progress, and future prospects of the whole region lying between the Mississippi and Pacific Ocean : to which is added the various routines, and prices of passage and transportation for emigrants thither, the laws, regulations and provisions for obtaining lands from the national or state government of railroads, counsel as to locations and procuring lands, crops most profitable for culture, mining operations, and the lastest processes for the reduction of gold and silver, the exercise of trades or professions, and detailed descriptions of each state ad territory, with full information concerning Manitoba, British Columbia, and those regions in the Atlantic States adapted to settlement, by those who do not wish to go west, and statistics of crops, areas, rainfall, etc.
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Bradley, Garretson & Co. Columbus, O. : W. Garretson & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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windows to the first story; access to it Is had onlyby ascending a ladder to the top of the story and then descend-ing another to the floor of the first. This lower story is for themost part a store-house where the corn or other grain used bythe family is stored, each color of the corn by Itself. The secondstory, or sometimes the third, contains the family room, which Istwenty or twenty-four feet by twelve or fifteen in width, andabout eight feet high. Usually all the rooms are plastered care-fully, and sometimes they are painted with rude devices. Fordoors and windows there are openings only, except that some-times small windows are glazed with thin sheets of selenite, thetransparent flat crystals of gypsum. To go up to the third orfourth story you climb by a stairway made In the projecting wallof the partition. In a corner of each principal room a little fire-place Is seen, large enough to hold about an armful of wood; astone chimney is built in the corner, and often capped outside
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CLIFF DVVFI I.ERS. THE DWELLINGS OF THE MOQUIS. 510 With a pottery pipe. The exterior of the houses is very irregu-lar and unsightly, and the streets and courts are filthy, thoughin the centre of each court is a large, deep fountain and pool,which is used for bathing; but within the houses great cleanli-ness is observed. Separated from the houses, indeed belongingto the village, is the kiva, called Eshtfa, the Sweat House, bythe Spaniards. It is a large underground room in the court-yard or plaza, chiefly intended for religious ceremonies, thechurch, in fact, of the village, but also used as a place of socialresort. A deep pit is excavated in the shaly rock and coveredwith long logs, over which are placed long reeds, thece, in turn,covered with earth, heaped in a mound above ; a hole or hatch-way is left, and the entrance to the kiva is by a ladder down thishatchway. The people are very hospitable and quite ceremonious ; theyare also remarkably polite. Enter a house and you are invite

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