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Title: Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Crofutt, George A
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The Overland Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lley, and possesses some of the most at-tractive scenery in Colorado. From Can-yon, it is about 12 miles to the GrandCanyon of the Arkansas, the toweringwalls of which rise in places perpendicular,2,000 feet, between which runs the Arkan-sas River. Here is a grand view, that canbe reached from the city, over a goodwagon road, through some magnificentchanging scenery. Canyon, not to be out-done, has secured a first-class hot spring,which has been picketed out, aboutone mile from the city. The baths areexcellent. The first settlement was made at CanyonCity, in the summer of 1859, and in 1860-1some good stone buildings were erected,and a great amount of freight from theMissouri River, destined for Tarryall, Cali-fornia Gulch and the Blue, came up theArkansas route, and went into the moun-tains, via Canyon City. Then it was thatprospects were bright for a big city atCanyon, and corner lots advanced, but themines—being all placer mines at thattime—became worked out, and Canyondeclined.
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INTERIOR VIEW OF SNOW SHEDS ON THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS. (See page 172.) Since the discovery of the San Juancountry the city has taken a step, ahead,and is now provided with banks, manylarge stores, churches, schools hotels, andsundry other accomplishments, includingthe State Penitentiary, and two weeklynewspapers—the Times and the Avalanche. Stages leave Canyon City daily for Lead-ville, distant 116 miles; but the railroadwill soon be extended, shortening the dis-tance by stage.—See Annex, No. 61. Returning to Pueblo, we are again offfor the south. Gradually we rise up out of the rirerbottom, and shape our course for the Span-ish Peaks, which we can see while 70miles away. San Carlos—is the first station on thebills, but they all pass it and make forthe Greenhorn—The first named is ninemiles from Pueblo, and the second is 4 5-10further. St. Charles Creek has been I crossed, also a broad prairie on whichgraze thousands of cattle and sheep. The timbered country of the Greenh

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