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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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country, andprobably the best ever got up in the world,for we have seen no European guide-bookthat began to compare with it. Greatpains seem to have been taken to bring theinformation and stati.^tics down, to the)-)resent d-Aic—Daily Post, San Francisco,Cal. —There is another thing which puzzlesmc somewhat—it is this: How you couldgather so many interesting facts, aud putthem invitingly into so small a space.—/. M. llutchinrjs, Yo Semite, Cal. —Mr. Crofutt is abundantly able to fur-nish us with information regarding thecountry along the routes described, havingtraveled over it eie a railroad was thoughtof, and afterwards went carefully along thelines, getting facts and data, and refreshinghis memorv^with associations among oncefamiliar scenes and faces. The result isthe work we have thus inadequately des-cribed.—C(>rts^ Review, San Francisco, Cal. —It gives more facts about the countrythan all other books ))ut together.—T/w^*,Denver, Col. AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 33
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devils slide, WEBKR canyon, UTAH. same length of time for breakfast. Theeating-house is on the right or north sideof the track, in a large, new building, andthe meals served are very good. It isclaimed that this town will become a greatrailroad center—it may; when it does weshall be pleased to record the fact. Onething is certain^ the bridge over the PlatteRiver to the south, and the one over LoupeFork to the northward, has had a tendencyto center a large amount of trade at thispoint. The Union Pacific Railroad Companyhave located here machine and repairshops, round-house, etc., being the end ofthe first power division west of Omaha. This station was named after Grand Is-land in the Platte River, two miles distant,one of the largest in the river, being about Chinese Cheap Labor—Work for nothing andboard yourself—from the inhabitants of yourneighbors hen-roost. 8 bO miles in length by four in width. TheIsland is well wooded—cottonwood princi-pally, and, some years after complet

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