These would head to the east of Big Horn Mountains, while those bound for Utah, Idaho, and California would go to the south side of the Wind River Mountains.

He was confident, however, that some day the Basin would be settled and developed, and that in its fertile valleys would be found the most prosperous people in the world.

It was there that my interest in the great possibilities of the West was aroused.
I never forgot what I heard around the campfire.

In 1894 the Carey Irrigation Act was passed by Congress.

A million acres of land was given to each of the arid States.