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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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about equal distances apart, showing thatthe waters of the lake have had three dif-ferent altitudes before they reached theirpresent level. We are gradually rising up on to a highbench and will continue along near thebase of the mountains for the next thirtymiles. In places the view will be grand.The Great Lake at the southwest with itsnumerous islands in the distance, the well-cultivated fields in the foreground, togetherwith the orchards and rippling rills fromthe mountain springs, which we cross everyfew minutes, make a beautiful picture;then back of all, on the east, rises the Wa-satch, peak upon peak, towering to theskies. From the last station it is 14 miles to WiLLARD—This is a quiet Mormon townof 700 inhabitants, and contains some finebuildings, but the greater portion are builtof logs and adobe, yet neat and cosy. Mostof the fences are of small willows inter-woven through large willow stakes stuckin the ground. The mountains near thistown present indications which would as.
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ENTERING THE PALISADES OF THE HUMBOLDT. sure the * prospector that they were richin various minerals. Strong evidences alsoexist of the great volcanic upheaval whichonce lit up this country with its lurid fires,most eflfectualy demolishing many philo-sophical theories, leaving their origina-nators to study nature more and hooksless. Near the city, in the first range of hills,is the crater of an extinct volcano, whichcovers several acres. The masses of lavalaying around, its bleak, barren, and deso-late appearance would seem to indicate that,comparatively speaking, not many yearshad elapsed since it was in active operation. Leaving Willard, our course is more tothe left, with broad fields and some finedwellings; then a strip of sage and alkali*and eight miles north we reach Brioham—This is the county seat ofBox Elder county, situated near the mouthof Box Elder and Wellsville Canyon.Like Willard, it nestles close under theshadow of the Wasatch, and is embowered in fruit trees.. Popula

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