Excerpt from Historical Collections of the Great West, Vol. 1: Containing Narratives of the Most Important and Interesting Events in Western History-Remarkable Individual Adventures-Sketches of Frontier Life-Descriptions of Natural Curiosities; To Which Is Appended Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Oregon, New M Tn Gau'r Water was first published in the year 1851, and at once gained a wide-spread and unexpected popularity. It appears to have met a great public want, as has been shown by the extraordinary sale of more than eighty thousand copies a number which has been rarely reached by any American historical work. As in the interval many important changes have taken place in the West, the book has been remodeled and the current of events brought down to the present time, so that the reader now has it in an enlarged and improved form. 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.