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Title: Across the continent by the Lincoln Highway
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gladding, Effie Price
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Roads
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ashort distance away, outside the town, began the grey-green desert with its sage brush whose pun-gent, aromatic odor was to be in my nostrils for somany days to come. I asked my hairdresser whether Reno had many people in residence waiting for their divorces. She said that the new law, by virtue of which they must have a years residence in Nevada, instead of the old period of six months, had cut down, so to speak, the business of divorces. She assured me that the Reno people deplored this as formerly the town was full of boarders and lodgers doing time. I confess I was somewhat shocked by such a sordid point of view. I found myself looking quietly around the Riverside dining room to see whether I could pick out in the v/ell filled room any candidates for divorce, and then I re-flected that they were probably looking at me with the same query in their minds. At Reno we followed our rule of visiting university buildings. We had seen the famous State University and the equally famous Stanford Uni-
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1. Crossing Mississippi at Clinton, Ohio. 2. Bridge near Reno.

BY THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY 119 versity in California, and wished to continue our study of college buildings and of the general atmos-phere of Western institutions. Unfortunately it was holiday time, but we were shown about most courteously by a young instructor. The Nevada State University buildings are modest and compar-atively few in number, but in good taste. They have a fine situation on a high plateau, wind-sweptand mountain-surrounded, at the edge of the town.Westerners call these lofty terraces, which dropdown one below another in step fashion at the footof the great mountains, benches. We had seen the very noble School of Mines atthe University of California, erected by Mrs.Hearst to her husbands memory. We were equally interested in the smaller but very pretty building erected by Mr. Clarence Mackay for the University of Nevada School of Mines. A striking statue of Mr. Mackay in his miners dress and with his miners pick, stands in front of the building and looks down the green l

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