Le grand-ouest des États-Unis : $b Les pionniers et les peaux-rouges : les colons du Pacifique.
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"Le grand-ouest des États-Unis : Les pionniers et les peaux-rouges : les colons…." by L. Simonin is an epistolary travel narrative and historical account written in the late 19th century. It follows a French traveler crossing the American Great West during the age of the transcontinental railroad, observing pioneers, Native nations, mining camps, and the swift rise of frontier towns, especially in Colorado. The work blends on-the-ground reportage with reflections on democracy and colonization, and signals an added study of early California. The opening of the book recounts how the Paris Exposition leads the narrator to accept an invitation to visit Colorado’s mines with J.-P. Whitney and Colonel Heine, framing the chapters as letters written en route. He sails to New York, speeds by rail to Chicago, and sketches that city’s explosive growth, grain elevators, lake-water tunnel, and pork industry before pushing on to Omaha, the launch point of the Pacific railroad. Crossing Illinois an
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