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Harper's new monthly magazine (1850)

Freer, Charles Lang · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 117

An illustration from Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850, leaf 117
Mountains. For more than a hundred old canvas-covered wagons that twenty miles the view is unobstructed. Moun- years. ago were the only vehicles to be tains are everywhere; piled together here; seen in this far-off land. broken, snow-capped, and isolated in other The newer and more pretentious… … far West is there to be hada more extended Street, but having a much higher eleva- or a more interesting view. tion and more commanding outlook. A Benton Avenue is another favorite res- few years ago the plateau which may now idence street. Walking down its shaded be regarded as the ‘‘court end” of…

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