Excerpt from The Pilgrim and the Pioneer: The Social and Material, Developments in the Rocky Mountains

This publication is an experiment. It is not intended that it shall follow any literary form or meet the approbation of the literary critic. The chief aim is to reach a class of readers who are deterred from reading abstract principles of lofty precepts in closely connected thoughts, because of the irksome effort involved. The fond expectation is also indulged of inducing a goodly number to read these pages for other objects than the high moral principles attempted to be imparted, and that enough of the every day philosophies of life will exude through the ballast to beneficially affect some of these lives.

Scenes are intended to shift and subjects to change as often as they would appear to the reader, were he making the journeys described on top of an Overland Stage Coach.

Accurate descriptions of important places, with the accompanying, moral, social and material developments, are sufficiently depicted to enable one who reads these pages to gain a fair comprehension of the early civilization, present development and future possibilities, of a part of the country that is wielding and is destined to wield so potent an influence on the national life, that no well informed person can afford to be ignorant of its early history.

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