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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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e wealth of scenery, andloves to note the beauties of the wonderful glow-ing sunlight, and the occasional cloud-storms,and wild display of power and glory. We know of no country better worth the titleof the Switzerland of America than Colorado,with its beautiful mountain parks, valleys, andsprings. Go and see them all. The tour will beworthy of remembrance for a life-time. The editor of this Guide expects soon to issueThe Colorado Tourist, devoted more especially tothe attractions of Colorado, as the limits of thisGuide can not begin to possibly describe a hun-dredth part of the objects of interest within thatlittle region—a world of pleasure travel by itself. Of Life in Colorado,—a prominent writerhas said: At Denver I found, as I thought, thegrade of civilization actually higher than in mostWestern cities. In elegance of building, in fin-ish, in furniture, in dress and equipages, thatcity is not behind any this side of the Atlanticborder. The total absence of squalidity and vis-
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TMM ^^€IFI€ WQWrnrnW. 70 ible poverty, and I may also say of coarsenessand rowdyism, impressed me on my visit verystrongly, as did the earnestness, activity and in-tensity of life which is everywhere so apparent. r. T. Barnuin once said of Colorado, in a lec-ture : Why, Coloradoans are the most disap-pointed people I ever saw. Two-thirds of themcame here to die, and tney cant do it. Thiswonderful air brings them back from the vergeof the tomb, and they are naturally exceedinglydisappointed. Tlie average temperature is about 60° the yearround—the air is bracing, winter mild, and daysalmost always full of clear skies and bright warmsunshine. The purity and dryness of the atmos-phere are proverbial. MoniitaiII of the Holif Cross.—The nameof this remarkable mountain is renowned to theends of the earth, and is the only one with thisname in the world. It is the principal mountainof the Sawatch Range, just west of the MiddlePark of Colorado, and is now easy ofaccess. The Hayden part

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