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The emigrants, in their turn, often made useof the ancient Indian trails.
[Illustration: FIG. 95. --THE CARSON PASS, SUMMIT OF SIERRA NEVADAMOUNTAINS One of the main emigrant routes to the Pacific Coast] While Nature seems to have striven to raise impassable barriersto shut off the Pacific slope from the rest of the continent, yetshe failed at some points, and through the unguarded passes the wildanimals and Indians first found their way. Then came the trappers, prospectors, farmers, and at las
...t the railroad, until the wildernesswas over-run.
Because of its temperate climate, abundant rainfall, and rich soil, the Mississippi Valley was rapidly settled after the pioneers hadonce reached it. The plains rising slowly westward toward the baseof the Rocky Mountains were found to be more arid the farther theywere explored. Consequently there exists a broad strip of plainwhich is even to-day sparsely settled. The emigrants went on tothe fertile valleys nearer the Pacific, where the rainfall is moreabundant.


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