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Identifier: californiaalaska00webbrich (find matches)
Title: California and Alaska, and over the Canadian Pacific railway
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Webb, William Seward, 1851-1926
Subjects: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company California Central Railroad Union Pacific railroad company Canadian Pacific Railway Company California -- Description and travel Pacific Coast -- Description and travel Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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anys line on our Western trip, cour-teously adding that arrangements had beenmade to make our trip as pleasant as possible. The country through which we passed atthis time, though very flat and sparsely popu-lated, seemed admirably adapted to farming.The appearance of the farms and buildingsshowed that the people enjoyed more thanthe usual degree of prosperity peculiar topastoral life. A notable sight served to recall the pasthistory of this country, and place it in sharpcontrast with the present—this was the oldcattle trails used by ranchmen in driving theircattle from Texas and the South into Montana,Wyoming, and Dakota, before railroads hadbeen built to perform such service quickly andcheaply. Sitting in our luxuriously appointedpalace-car, and noting this point of interest,topfether with the overland wagfon roads usedin former years, we could not but recall thevast progress that has been made of late yearsin furnishing transportation facilities for ajourney across the continent.
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CHAPTER III. DENVER AND COLORADO SPRINGS. We reached Pueblo, the chief city of South-ern Colorado, on the evening of April loth,where we were delayed for two hours, owing toa wash-out. The Spanish-speaking people andthe French hunters and trappers who lived inthis section before the march of improvementbegan, gave queer-sounding names to the moun-tains, streams, and the small settlements as theybegan to be formed. Pueblo is a sample ; butwhen the early settlers came they soon changedall this, and the brakemen on the Westernroads certainly have cause to be thankful thatplain Anglo-Saxon names have replaced thequeer titles that were common in the early days. It was so cold coming up the grade over themountains that we had to build fires in all thecars, but when we reached Denver we foundthe weather warm and pleasant. Our stop at i6 Denver and Colorado Springs. i 7 this point was made more agreeable from thefact that we received our mail, which had comeover the Union Pacific line from Ch

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