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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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gs, the beauties of Estes Park and Longs Peak,all of which are of remarkable interest. Special assistance has been rendered by many persons which contributes to the interest andaccTiracy of its statements, but their names are too numerous to be inserted. Mention must bemade, however, of Professor F. V. Hayden, the celebrated leader of the United States GeologicalExploring Expedition, who has rendered valuable aid to make this Guide complete and reliable,and written for it an admirable account of the Wonders of the Yellowstone; and of ClarenceKing, who also had charge of the United States Geological Survey, and has given a descriptionof the Shoshone Falls. Thomas Moean, who more than any other artist has drawn sketches of the Wonders of theWest, and Albert Bierstadt, the most celebrated of painters of American Scenery, have eachadded to the Guide rich embellishments and illustrations. That every traveler may have bon voyage is the labor and wish of the Editor. Frederic E. Shearer. UPB.
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Wonders of Scenery of the Rocky Mountains, PACIFIC COAST AND THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAIL ROADS. The grandest of American scenery bordersthe magnificent route of tlie Pacific Railroads.Since their completion, the glorious views ofmountain grandeur in The Yoxemite, The Yellow-stone, have become known. The sublimities ofColorado, the Itocky Mountains, 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 opening of thisgreat trans-co

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