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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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ied jjalm-wood may be seen at their store.They are both beaiatiful and rare. The factthat i^etrified palm-wood and petrified bones ofthe rhinoceros have been found in this terri-tory, shows that some six million years ago—comparatively recent—there was a tropicalclimate in this region of the country, when thepalm flourished in luxuriance, and the rhino-ceros sported in the warm streams or cavortedaround on their sunny banks. Prospects.—At present, the greatest causeof the growth and prosperity of Cheyenne isthe discovery of gold in the Black Hills ofDakota. This cause will last until, if thatcountry will warrant it, a railroad is builtthere. The discoveries of gold seem to be ex-tensive and inexhaustive, and the building ofa railroad from some jjointhereoron the UnionPacific or Missouri River will rai^idly follow.The Colorado Division of the Union PacificHallway gives to Cheyenne very flatteringprospects, and its business men are reaping arich harvest from their investments. The
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SCENES IN THE BLACK HILLS.1.—Golden Park. 2.—Genevieve Park. 3.—Custer Park. 4.—Limestone Peak. 5.—Harneys Park. 68 TME FM€IWW TQlfMMr. opening of Northern Wyoming to settlement,the development of the vast mineral resourcesof the territory, and the continued prosperityof her stock interests, will give to the MagicCity of the Plains the trade, growth and in-fluence which her location demands. Health.—As a resort for health-seekers,Cheyenne has sui^erior advantages. It is abouta thousand feet higher than Denver, with anatmosphere not only rarefied but dry. It hasgood hotels and livery accommodations. Poniesare cheap, and invalids can purchase them andride over the hills and dales at pleasure. Thereis also an abundance of game in the vicinity—antelope, rabbits, deer, etc. A bear weighingover 1,500 poiials was killed near here in 1875.Its skin has b^en i^resarved, and the bear hasbeen mounted in good shape. Frequent excur-sions can also be taken in the warm summerweather t

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