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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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ssion of the station, bound and gaggedthe men, cut the telegraph wires, andwhen the western train arrived, took pos-session of it with guns and revolvers, inthe name of hands up. The robbers se-cured $65,000 from the express car, $1,300and four gold watches from passengers,then mounted tlieir horses, that had beenhitched near by, and allowed the train toproceed. No person was killed or injured,but fl^^^ experienced much difficulty for days,in getting their hair to lay down; and, it issaid, among the railroad men, that evennow a sudden shout hands up, in thehearing of that express messenger, willsend his hat up three feet from his head,and his face and head will resemble theAll Seeing Eye in the Mormon sign of Holiness to the Lord, on another page.Immediately after the robbery, a reward of Ox drivers on the plains are called bull-whack-ers; mule drivers, mule skinners. All persons, in the Territories, of mixed blood,are called Greasers; Peons are Mexicanslaves. AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE.
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$10,000 was offered for the arrest of theperpetrators, and three have been caughtftnd have paid the penalty of the crime withtheir lives. About one-half of the money-has been recovered. After leaving this station, we pass by aseries of cuts and fills, and another rangeof bluffs, cut up by narrow ravines andgorges. At points, the roads run so nearthe river bank, that the water seems to beright under the cars. But we emergeagain, after 7 8-10 miles, and come to fiarton—a small signal station of verylittle importance. Passing on a short dis-tance we can see the old town of Julesburg,on the south side of the river. The townw^as named after Jules Burg, who wasbrutally assassinated, as will be related inAnnex Ko. 10. From Barton, it is 8 7-10 miles to thestation of Jnlesborg—Elevation 3,394 feet; dis-tance from Omaha, 377 miles. Until 1868,this was an important military, freightand passenger station, since when it de-clined to a simple way station. In 1873-4, a railroad bed was graded u

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