File:The Pacific tourist - Adams and Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean - containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, (14760899262).jpg

Identifier: pacifictouristad1881shea (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
sHoney Lake, another i-emarkable body of water.It is sometimes dry so that teams can be drivenacross its bed, and then again it is on the ram-page. Its waters resemble soap-suds, and areadmirably adapted for washing purposes. W^henlashed by the winds, its waters become a rollingmass of foam, and afford a magnificent specta-cle to the beholder. If it only had permanentwater of the character alluded to, it would be anexcellent location for a huge laundry. Stage Routes to Lake Tahoe.—A favoriteroute to Lake Tahoe is via Carson City. It maybe more easily reached and seen on the west-ward tour, than to wait and include it on theeastward return. After a visit to Virginia City, the tourist willreturn to Carson City, remain over night at agood comfortable hotel, the Ormsby House,—whose proprietor considers it tl\e highest tonedhotel in Nevada, and next morning, at 8.30 A.M., take Bentons Stage for Tahoe. wmm Pm€iwi€ TQWWtmw. 229 18 f H > s ?^ W >■ Ul > a ffi o o s>» K K
Text Appearing After Image:
230 wmm ^m€iwi€ w@wmibw. To visit and make the circuit of the lake, andreturn to Carson will require at least 18 hours,but most tourists will find it desirable to stop atthe little hotel on the opposite side of the lake,and return via Truckee, thus seeing greatervariety of scenery. Tourists by this route to Virginia Citj^, Carsonand Tahoe, will be obliged to leave the OverlandWestern train at Eeno at 8:30 p. m. , and spendthe night at Keno at the Railroad Hotel, orgo on the same night to Carson or VirginiaCity. _ During the summer, stages leave Carsonevery morning about eight oclock for LakeTahoe. Private teams, or special stages, can be en-gaged at Bentons stables, in Carson, for a tripto the Lake at any time. On this route there is the best known of allCalifornia stage-drivers, who have reined kyuseor mustang horses,—the modest Hank Monk.His first fame was not on the platform ofFaneuil Hall in oratory, but in the streets ofBoston, with eight horses abreast, well trainedto the

Note About Images