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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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to open upon his view. There is to bevariety—beauty, grandeur and sublimity. Ifhe enters this place at night, the following daywill reveal to him the green fields and magnifi-cent landscapes of California, and in less than2-1 hours, he will be able to feast his greedy eyesupon a glowing sunset on the Pacific Coast. Leaving Wadsworth we cross the TruckeeRiver and gaze with delight upon the trees, thegreen meadows, the comfortable farm-house, andwell-tilled fields of the ranche on our left, justacross the bridge. Like everything else lovelyin this world, it soon fades from our vision, aswe rapidly pass into the Truckee Canon. Themountains now coni^ dowii on either side asthough they would shake hands across the silvertorrent that divides them. The valley narrowsas if to liasten their cordial grasp, and to removeall obstacles in their way. Now it widens alittle as though it was not exactly certainwhether these mountains should come togetheror not, and wanted to consider the matter. But
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IscL.NLs ON THL TKUCKLL Ki\l!.K—Bi InoMAS Moka> 1.—Truckee Meadows, Sierras in the distance. 2.—Pleasant Valley. 3.—Truckee River, near State Line. 4.—Red Bluff, Truckee River. 5.~Bridge at Eagle Gap. 6.—Truckee River Rapids. leaving this question to the more practicalthoughts of our readers, we hasten on, windingaround promontories and in and out of draws and ravines, through rocky cuts, and over highembankments with the river rolling and tumblingalmost beneath our feet, and the ragged peakstowering high above us, passing Salvia,—a simple side track, six miles fromWadsworth. Now we have something to occupyour attention; there are new scenes passing byat every length of the car, and we have to looksharp and quick, or many of them will be lostforever. Soon we make a short turn to the right,and what the railroad men call Red Rock ap-pears in front, then to our right, and finally overour heads. It is a huge mountain of lava thathas, sometime, in the ages of the past, bee

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