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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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ill to decipher the old andtime-stained hieroglyphics with which itis decorated, will learn that it marks thelast resting-place of some emigrant orfreighter, who, overcome by sickness; laiddown here and gave up the fainting spiritto the care of Him who gave it; or, per-chance, will learn that the tenant of thisrentless house fell while defending hiswife and children from the savage Indians,who attacked the train in the gray dawn ordarker night. There is a sad, brief his-tory connected with each told to the passer-by, mayhap in rude lines, possibly by thebroken arrow or bow, rudely drawn on themouldering head-board. However rude orrough the early emigrants may have been,it can never be charged to them that theyever neglected a comrade. The sick weretenderly nursed, the dead decently buried,and their graves marked by men who hadshared with them the perils of the trip.Those were days, and these plains theplace that tried mens mettle; and here theWestern frontiersman shone superior to all
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HIGH SCHOOL, OMAHA. 30 CROFUTT 8 NEW OVERLAND TOURIST Others who ventured to cross the vastdesert, which stretched its unknownbreadth between him and the land of hisdesires. Brave^ cool and wary as the sav-age, with his unerring rifle on his arm, hewas more than a match for any red devil hemight encounter. Patient under adversity,fertile in resources, he was an invaluableaid at all times; a true friend, and bitterfoe. This type of people is fast passingaway. The change wrought within the lastfew years has robbed the plains of itsmost attractive feature, to those who arefar away from the scene—the emigranttrain. Once, the south bank of the Plattewas one broad thoroughfare, whereon thelong trains of the emigrants, with theirwhite-covered w^agons, could be seenstretching away for many miles in an almostunbroken chain. Now, on the north side ofthe same river, in almost full view of theold emigrant road, the cars are bearingthe freight and passengers rapidly west-w^ard, while the oxen th

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