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Title: A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route."
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally & co., printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ndWarm Springs near Fort Steele. For the hunter it is an ideal hunting-ground,containing all manner of game, from cotton-tails to grizzly bears. CHEYENNE. Cheyenne, 6,050 feet in altitude, with a population of about 10,000, is oneof the sprightliest and most prosperous cities in the entire West. It is well andcompactly built, and for many years has been the centre of the cattle industryof the Northwest. Cheyenne has been a wild town, but is now a well regu-lated city with many fine stores and handsome residences. It constituted for along time the outpost of civilization, becoming embodied in the legends of bor-der life, and is a place of rare historical interest. Five miles from the city is.Fort Russell, one of the largest military posts in the West. Cheyenne possesses all the modern improvements—gas, electric light, street-car service, and most of the luxuries of city life. This is the junction point ofthe two main stems of the Union Pacific—the Nebraska Main Line, 516 miles (47)
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Gardiner River Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park—reached via the Union Pacific Ry. (48) FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE. 49 from Omaha, and the Kansas Main Line, 746 miles from Kansas City. Thissection is capable of producing great crops of corn and wheat, and, with theinflux of the farming element, better results may be looked for. In the imme-diate vicinity of Cheyenne fire-clay is found in great abundance, and fine flint-sand is plentiful a few miles north. Two industries are thus secured in thematter of material—the manufacturing of pottery and glass. SHERMAN, A small station just west of Cheyenne, at an elevation of 8,247 ^eet, is theloftiest point in the transcontinental ride. From Sherman can be seen LongsPeak, nearly 200 miles away, and the Ames Monument, a pyramidal granitestructure sixty-five feet in height, with a base of sixty feet square, which waserected by the Union Pacific Railway to the memory of the Ames Brothers, towhom the completion of the Union Pacific was large

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