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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Shearer, Frederick E Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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, and 496.4miles from Omaha. Notice the grade indicatedby the elevations as you pass these stations. Atkins,—502.6 miles from Omaha, and 5,800feet above the sea. It is a side track, simply,with water tank and section-house near by. Thewell which supplies this station with water isover 200 feet deep. Here the traveler obtains agood view of the Black Hills stretching off to theright. Still up the grade you go, reaching the (il wmm ^maiFW wowmmw. summit of the divide in the first snow shed onthe line of the road just beyond A vrhei-,—which is 508 miles from the startingplace, with an elevation of 6,000 feet above tide-water. This station is a side track with section-house near by. A short distance farther, you makes its way through the bluffs off to the left-Soon we come to a deep cut through the spur ofa bluff, passing which, we cross a bridge over adry ravine, and then continue up the hill to the Magic City of the plains, called Cheyenne.Ltonys I^eak.—Travelers will notice, a few
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longs peak from estes park. enter the shed; it seems like passing through atunnel. In the distance there are mountainsto the right of you, and mountains to theleft of you, but we shall see more of them here-after. Leaving the snow shed we are now on adown grade into Crow Creek Valley, which hours before reaching Cheyenne, the snow-cladsummit of this bold peak, rising above the dis-tant horizon. It is about sixty miles south-westof the Union Pacific Railroad, and the highestmountain in northern Colorado. The view wehere give is taken from Estes Park; a beautiful wmm ^m€iFi€ wqwmi&w. ea little park on its north-western slope, and abouttwelve miles distant from the summit. Thispark is about four miles wide, and six miles long,is well sheltered, easy of access, and beautifullycovered with pine and spruce trees, scatteredeasily about over the grassy surface, which givesto it a true park-like loveliness. It is partiallyoccupied by a few families who have taken uppermanent homesteads

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