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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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go as far as Grand Island, and stop.This place is 1,8.50 feet above the sea, and youare in the midst of a fine prairie country,with a generally clear atmosphere and balmybreezes. Here are good hotel accommodations,in a thickly settled region, where you can obtainplenty of fresh milk, cream and eggs, and such either along the stream or on the adjoining high-lands, still camping out, until you reach NorthPlatte. Then take another rest, look around thecountry, mount your horse and ride out to thecattle ranches and live with the herders for atime. Do not be in a hurry to get away, andafter you have been here a month or six weeks,if you still improve, or even hold your own withthe character of the life herein prescribed, it willbe safe for you to go still farther, and in the samemanner. But if you are not benefited by thetrip thus fai-, it will be better for you to return toyour homes and friends, where loving hands cansmooth your pillow and administer comfort dur-ing your declining days.
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BUKKALO HUJiri*iU. other articles of diet as are necessary and condu-cive to your welfare. Ride or walk out fromtown; go around among the farmers, and if,after a month or so, you improve and wish to gofarther, buy a team and wagon, and from thisplace go along leisurely overland, camping out ifthe weather is favorable. There are opportuni-ties for hunting and fishing, along the road,which will afford amusement and recreation.When you get to Kearny Junction, stop a fewweeks. Notice the effect of your new mode oflife and the climate upon your health, and ifyou simply hold your own, it is safe for you totake another step up the Platte Valley in yourwestward journey. Leisurely pursue your way, If the journey has benefited you, pi^rsue itoverland and camping out, to Sidney or Chey-enne, up the Lodge Pole Valley and along sideof the railroad, or at Julesburg go up the SouthPlatte Valley to Greeley. You are now, if atCheyenne, over 6,000 feet above the sea, and be-tween 5,000 and 6,000 feet a

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