Project Gutenberg 2025-08-03 Public domain in the USA. 571 Simonin, Louis 1830 1886 Simonin, Louis Laurent Simonin, L. (Louis) Simonin, Louis-Laurent Le grand-ouest des États-Unis : $b Les pionniers et les peaux-rouges : les colons du Pacifique. $aParis :$bCharpentier, $c1869. Laurent Vogel, Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "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 and Iowa alongside emigrants, he contrasts “civilization” with the Far West, describes Omaha and nearby tribes, and notes recent attacks on railway workers. He then rides the Union Pacific across the Platte country to Julesburg, evokes prairie fires, French toponyms, and buffalo, visits Fort Sedgwick, and boards the overland stage with an armed escort. The stage journey to Denver brings fortified stations, accounts of frontier violence (including Sand Creek), harrowing captivity tales, and admiration for the grit of settlers—ending with a safe arrival. In Denver he depicts a young but bustling city born of 1859 gold finds, its institutions, markets, and outsized produce, then outlines the territory’s origins and social life before setting off into the Rockies; the section closes with horseback travels to Central City and Georgetown and vivid notes on dusty roads and communal washing stops. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k411222c 20230910071422simonin 1869 FR Reading ease score: 66.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fr West (U.S.) -- Description and travel California -- History Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) F590.3 Text Category: Travel Writing Category: French Literature Category: History - American 514498 2025-08-05T17:00:06.458394 text/html 489171 2025-08-03T04:51:41 text/html 354933 2025-08-05T17:00:13.151332 application/epub+zip 351422 2025-08-05T17:00:07.597350 application/epub+zip 270053 2025-08-05T17:00:07.020339 application/epub+zip 468617 2025-08-05T17:00:17.489347 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 420510 2025-08-05T17:00:12.643324 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 467695 2025-08-05T17:00:05.633454 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 447682 2025-08-03T04:51:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14564 2025-08-05T17:00:17.651259 application/rdf+xml 10863 2025-08-05T17:00:07.145399 image/jpeg 2278 2025-08-05T17:00:07.095306 image/jpeg 292095 2025-08-05T17:00:06.546381 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia