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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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nch stretches off north to Beaver Caiion (where stageconnection from the Yellowstone National Park is made), Butte, Garrison, andHelena, and to Ogden, Salt Lake City, and Garfield Beach, on the shores ofGreat Salt Lake. Pocatello is a lively little town of some 2,000 people, andgrowing rapidly. Here the division headquarters and machine shops of therailway are located. The climate is cool and bracing. The country is brokenand rugged, but there are pleasant, fertile valleys, and the Fort Hall IndianReservation, in which Pocatello is situated, is a beautiful stretch of country. The American Falls are located on the Snake River, which is crossed by theUnion Pacific at American Falls Station. The Union Pacific Railway crosses the Snake River on a bridge morethan six hundred feet in length, and carried directly over the American Falls,so that the traveler can look full upon the rushing waters, as, white with foam,they roar upon the rocks and disappear beneath the arches of the bridge. (57)
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(58) FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE. 59 These falls are described by Irving in his Bonneville. The banks of the river,for a considerable distance both above and below the falls, have a volcaniccharacter; masses of basaltic rock are piled one upon another; the water makesits way through their broken chasms, boiling through narrow channels or pitch-ing in beautiful cascades over ridges of basaltic columns. Captain Bonnevillein his route missed the stupendous falls, now called the Great Shoshone, butthese excited his admiration, and were it not for the marvels of that greaterneighbor, these would still be the feature of all the country round. Lookingnorthward, the Three Buttss of Lost River are seen lifted above the levelexpanse, and, somewhat to the westward, the steep, jagged outlines of the loftySaw Tooth Range. Below the falls the banks are steep, but with an occasionalalcove of grassy meadowy a growth of cedars covering the tops, not large, butvery venerable in years and appearance. Trout

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