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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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not visit theAlps or Apenines, but go and seethe grand scen-ery of Clear Creek Canyon of Colorado. Seepage 59- Xo. 13 Annex. Snow Difficulties—TheCentral Pacific Company commenced the erectionof snow-sheds at the same time with their track-laying over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, andthe result has been their trains have never beendelayed as often or as long as on many roads inthe Eastern States. The depths of snow-fall andthe necessities for snow-sheds over the Sierraswere known^ and could be guarded against, butfurther to the eastward, over the Rocky Moun-tains, on the route of the Union Pacific, no suchnecessity for protection against snow was thoughtto exist; hence the blockade of February andMarch, 1869. The Union Pacific Company immediately took—as was thought by everybody at the time—am-ple precautions to protect their cuts from thedrifting snow, by the erection of snow-fences andsnow-sheds at every exposed point, but the win-ter of 1871-2 proved to be one of unusual—un-
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Bay of San Frascbco. Oakland Wharf. SAN FRANCISCO, THE GOLDEN GATE, AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY. (See Annex No. 46.) THE BALD^MIN. THE ONLY HOTEL HAVING SUNLIGHT IN EVERY ROOM.

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