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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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g and hunting, are provided for.See Annex, No 10. We now return to the railroad, cross thebridge, and turn away to the northward,through long snow-sheds and rocky cuts,made through red sandstone, six miles toTie hiding;—This station is importantonly in the fact of its being a point wheregreat quantities of ties and wood arebrought to the railroad from the hills tothe northward. The view to the southis that of a very broken and rugged coun-try. To the west, the southern end ofthe great Laramie Plains is spread out,almost at our feet, twenty miles in width,with the wondrous Rocky Mountains ris-ing from its western border, range uponrange, peak overlapping peak, away up,up into the regions of perpetual snow,over one hundred miles away. Our train is descending rapidly, andmore to the northward; steam is no longerrequired—only brakes. Onward, 4 1-10miles, through snow-sheds and deep exca-vations, brings us to Harney — an unimportant stationI^assing on, to the left can be seen the old
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STEAMBOAT ROCK, ECHO CANYON, UTAH, U P.R.R. (See Annex No. 19,) AND rxVCIFIC COAST GUIDE.

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