Excerpt from Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, With Speaker Colfax My Dear Mr. Colfax: - It was so pleasant and so profitable to travel with you during the summer, - your amiability and your popularity so readily unlocked all mysteries, and made all paths so straight; even Nature gave kinder welcome to your progress than her wont; that I would fain go along with you still farther, and ensure by your presence summer skies for this story of our observations, this record of our experiences. Besides, the book is more yours than mine. Your friendship gave me the opportunity for the travel; your favoring thought first suggested to me the then strange idea that the Letters should be put together into a volume; and your wide and close observation and your quick insight helped me to much of the material and the statistic. So I may rightly claim the favor of your name, and the charm of your company, in this new and unexpected trip into author-land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.