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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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and sixty-six feet, where sulphur springs,
mud, geysers, salt, and many other kinds
of springs—both hot and cold—are very
numerous, forcibly reminding one of the
tinfernal regions; but, as our modern
teachers have done away with that old
bugaboo, we suppose they would not
hesitate to visit with us this remarkable
and very interesting region, and also go
with us to Yuma, up the Gila to terminus
Southern Pacific, in Arizona.
Let us see, we are living in a fast age;
the sun makes very good time, but Old
Sol is aged, has run in the same old
groove for too many years to retain much
of the spirit of Progress. It is within
the memory of many, how Morse, with
his lightning, beat the old luminary, and
we are now talking all around him.
Steam on the rail is next in speed; one
mile a minute is not uncommon. The
trip from New York city to San Francisco,
a distance of 3,296 miles, was commenced
June 1st, 1877, by Jarrett & Palmer, on a
special train, and the run made in 83 hours,
53 minutes, and 45 seconds, an average of

AMERICAN PROGRESS (SQee Annex No. 1) (1.)

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THE BURLINGTON ROUTE.
CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY R. R.
The Favorite Trans-Continental Line of America.
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FIVE HUNDRED MILES OF STEEL TRACK

BETWEEN
CHICAGO AND OMAHA,
Connecting the Trunk Lines between
THE ATLANTIC AND CHICAGO,
WITH THE
Pacific Railroads
BETWEEN
OMAHA & THE PACIFIC OCEAN

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PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS,
C, B. & Q. FAMOUS DINING CARS

——AND——
Superior Accommodations

FOR ALL CLASSES OF TRAVEL.

The Closest Attention Paid by this Line to Everything that tends to Make

TRAVELING a LUXURY INSTEAD of a DISCOMFORT.
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For Time Table, Rates of Fare, Sleeping Accommodations and other In-
formation, address,

JNO. Q. A. BEAN, or H. P. STANWOOD,
Gen. Eastern Agent, General Agent,
3106 Washinfton St., Boston, Mass. No. 2 Montgomery St. (in Palace Hotel),
317 Broadway, New York.
San Francisco, Cal.

THE BURLINGTON ROUTE.

THE CUT GIVEN BELOW REPRESENTS AN INTERIOR
VIEW OF THE
C. B. &Q.

PALACE DINING CARS
RUN ONLY BY THE
CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD.

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