Download or read book Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains written by William Henry Rideing and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a member of the Geographical Surveys under Lt. Wheeler, U.S. Army Engineers, presents a series of adventures based on first hand knowledge of the West, Colorado, the Rocky Mountains, Indians, buffalo, and the period of the middle 1850s, with scores of illustrations by Thomas Moran and other artists of the period, and including a rewrite of John Wesley Powell's report on his transit of the Grand Canyon.