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Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. WME ^m€iF£€ F&WmiBW. 23 follows:—At the time of the opening of thePikes Peak excitement in gold diggings, twopioneers made themselves conspicuous by paint-ing in large letters on the side of their wagoncover :— Pikes Peat or Bu<l. In their haste toreach this, the newly discovered Eldorado, theyscorned all safety and protectioa offered by thetrain and traveled alone, and on their ownhook. For days and weeks they escaped the dangersattending their folly, and i)assed unharmed untilthey readied the roving ground of the bloodySioux, ir^re they were surrounded and cruellyand wantonly murdered; their bodies were driventhrough with arrows, and pinned to the earth,and left to the sunshine and storms of theskies. Freinont—is 46.5 miles from Omaha, andhas an elevation of 1,176 feet. It is th?, coanty-S^at of Dodge County, and has a poi)ulation offull 3,000. In the year 1875, over ^100,000 wereex;p3nded in buildings in this growi

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