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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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TWO BITS TO SEK THE PAPPOOSE. Both are energetic little sheets, and fitly illus-trate the enterprise of these Western towns.Across the river, over a wooden bridge, is locatedihe cemetery, in which the remains of the deadare enclosed. It is on an elevated, sandy beach,the second terrace or step from the river level.By it winds the stage road to Idaho and thenorth. The Piutes have their tents scatteredon all sides of the town, to which the euphoni-ous name of * Wick-ee-ups is given. Theyserve to remind one of the departing glory—ifthey ever had any—of the Indian race. In this emigrants, eager to dispatch a stray victim, orupon the borders of settlements, ready to strikedown the hardy pioneer at the first favorableopportunity. At present, overpowered by num-bers, they live upon the bounty of their formerenemies, and are slowly, but surely, learning, byexample, the ways of civilization. As a class,however, they are still indolent, dirty and cov-ered with vermin. But they begin to lear

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