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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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pages of this volume, have alreadv required for the Editor and hisAssistants, over ten years travel, and ^20 000 in cost. 1his volume is before the Tourist as theresult of this expenditure of time and money. To its pages special assistance has been given bythe most eminent travelers and Governmental Explorers of the day. rrofessor F, V, Jlaffflen^—the celebrated leader of the United States Geological ExploringExi^edition, has contributed special assistance in the work of making this Guide complete, andwritten an admirable account for Tourists of the Wonders of the Yellowstone. Clarence King hasalso given a description of the Shoshone Falls. Thomas Moron, who more than any other artist has drawn sketches of the Wonders of the West,ami .VlWert Bi»rstadt the most celebrated of painters of American Scenery, have each added to theGuide rich einbtUishments and illustrations. Wishing every Traveler the utmost joy in liis Tour, and a happy voyage, We aie «inceiely, ADAMS & BISHOP. \^B
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Ijeixswrjes 0f ®ntvlnn&. ^vuvtt Wonders of Scenery of the Rocky Mountains, PACIFIC COAST AND THE PACIFIC RAIL ROAD. The grandest of American scenery bordersthe magnificent route of the Pacific Railroads.Since their completion, the glorious views ofmountain grandeur in The Yoaemite, The Yellow-stone, have become known. The sublimities ofColorado, the Rocky Mountain^!, canons of Utah,and the Sierra Nevadas, have become famous.The attractions of the Far West for mining,stock raising and agriculture have added mil-lions of wealth and population. The glorious mountain climate, famed for itsinvigorating effects have attracted tourists andhealth seekers from the whole world. Thegolden land of California, its seaside pleasureresorts, its fertile grain fields, fruit gardensand flowers, have given irresistible charms tovisitors ; until now, a tour across the Continentopens to the traveler a succession of scenes,worthy the efforts of a life time to behold. Industries have arisen by the open

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