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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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from Omaha, andfrom San Francisco, 1,177. On this wild spot, surrounded by fewevidences of vegetation—and those of themost primitive form—this little sign marksthe center of the grandest range of moun-tains on the continent. Amid what seemsto have been the wreck of mountains, westand and gaze away in the vast distanceat the receding lines of hill, valley andmountain peaks, which we have passed inour journey. We reel the cool mountainbreeze on our cheeks, but it brings no aromaof life and vegetation with its cooling cur-rent. We feel and know that the samesky which hangs so warm and blue overthe smiling valleys, looks down upon usnow—but how changed the aspect; thin,gray and cold it appears, and so clear thatwe almost expect to see the stars lookingdown through the glistening sunbeams.We do not seem to be on the mountainheight, for the expanse seems but a oncelevel plain, now arched and broken intougly, repulsive hollows and desolate knobs. Here, if a spring should rise from this
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VIEW OF SALT LAKE CITY, LOOKING SOUTHWEST. sage-brush knoll, it s waters would divide,and the different portions eventually min-gle with the two oceans which wash theopposite sides of the continent. We enterthe cars and pass on, the track seeming tobe lost but a short distance in our front.The view from the rear of the car is thesame. The track seems to be warped upand doubled out of sight. The curvatureof this backbone gives the track a similarappearance to that witnessed at Slierman.Although much higher at Sherman, still To be - dead broke/ or out of money, is cap, * on the bed rock/etc. tliis is the continental divide, but the low,broad pass brings us 1,212 feet below thatplace. To the north, the Seminole moun-tains rear their rugged heights, and fartheron, and more to the westward, can be seenthe long lines and gray peaks of theSweetwater Range. Still farther to thewest and north, the Wind River Moun-tains close the scene in the dim distance,their summits robed in snow. Away tothe

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