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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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ross the river at thispoint, and for months at a time camp onthe Island or on the river banks. From this station to the next, it is 9 1-10miles. McPherson—is a military station,five miles from the Platte River, and sevenmiles from old Cottonwood Springs onthe opposite side of the river, with whichit is connected by a bridge, a great im-provement on the old ford. The country round about is well watered,and some timber on the bottoms can beobtained for all necessary purposes. Alarge amount of fine meadow land adjoinsthe station, from which are cut thousandsof tons of hay that are either sold to theGovernment at the fort or shipped up ordown the road. Fort McPherson—is situated on thesouth side of the Platte River, near Cot-tonwood Springs. The post was estab-lished Feb. 20, 1866, by Major S. W.OBrien, of the 7th Iowa Cavalry. It wasoriginally known as Cantonment Mc-Keon, and also as Cottonwood Springs.At the close of the war, when the regulararmy gradually took the place of the vol-
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DALB CREEK BRIDGE, NEAR SHERMAN, ON THE BLACK HILLS OF WYOMING, 38 CKOFUTT S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST unteers who had been stationed on thefrontier during the rebellion, the names ofmany of the forts were changed, and theywere re-named in memory ot* those gal-lant officers who gave their lives in de-fense of their country. Fort McPhersonwas named after Major-General James B.McPherson, who was killed in the battlebefore Atlanta, Georgia, July, 22d, 1864.Supplies are received via McPherson Sta-tion. Located in latitude 41 deg., longi-tude 100 deg. 30 min. The next station is 7 7-10 miles further,named G-annett—a side-track—nearly fivemiles from where the trains cross the longtrestle bridge over the North Platte River—This river risesin the mountains of Colorado, in the NorthPark. Its course is to the northeast fromits source for several hundred miles, whenit bends around to the southeast. We shallcross it again at Fort Steele, 402 miles fur-ther west. The general characteristics ofthe

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