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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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VERNAL FALLS, YOSEMITE. BV THOMAS MORAX. TME P^mFt€ TQVmi^T. 299 The Big Trees. There is occasionally a man -vvho insists oncalling them IVeliiigtonia, but all botanists andmen of nearly every nation give them their Amer-ican name, sequoia jj;iganteus. The ordinaryred-wood of California is of the same genus,and called sequoia sempervirens, and attains adiameter of sixteen feet. The ordinary red-wood is not found in theSierras, and the Big Trees proper are all in theSierras. The largest tree yet known is onKings River, 40 miles from Visalia, and forty-four feet in diameter. This Kings Kiver grove,and the two groves on the north and south forksof the Tule River, are not easily accessible.The groves accessible to tourists are the northand south Calaveras, Tuolumne, Merced, northand §outh MariiJosa and the north and sovithFresno. Of these the Calaveras or Mariposa is usuallyvisited, and sometimes both. The Tuolumneis on the direct Big Oak Flat route to the Yose-mite Valley, and the sta

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