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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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e. It has anelegant dining-hall, around which hang theheads of antelope, deer, elk, mountain-sheep,black-tailed deer, buftalo, etc., aU nicely pre-served and looking very natural. It is twostories high, the upper floor being well fur-nished with sleej^ing-rooms for guests. Chey-enne is the cajjital of Wyoming and the countyseat of Laramie County. Cheyenne has hadits ups and downs. Once very lively when theroad was building, then it fell dead and motion-less. Now it has arisen again, and is the largesttown on the railroad between Omaha and SaltLake City, having a poiJulation of fully 4,000,and rapidly growing. There are two causesfor this growth. First, the stock interestswhich center here, and, second, the recent golddiscoveries in the Black Hills. It is the termi-nus of the Cheyenne Division of the UnionPacific Railway, and of the Colorado Divisionof the Union Pacific Railway, giving two routesto Colorado and New Mexico. During the lastfew years there has been a large increase in the
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o g§ WH O o wmm pm€iFi€ w@¥Mi&w. 65 permanent buildings of the city. In 1875 theInter-Ocean Hotel was completed—a fine brickstructure three stories high, and other largeand elegant brick blocks, with iron and glassfronts. In proportion to its population, Chey-enne has more elegant and substantial businesshouses than almost any other Western city. Thetown has a fine court-house and jail, which cost$40,000, a large public-school building, a goodcity hall, a brick opera-house, and a palatialclub-house costing some ^25,000. This is awonderful change for a place known the worldover by its fearful sobriquet of Hell onWheels. Churches have come where gamblersonce reigned; and in five years as many edificesfor religious purposes have been erected.The Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians,Congregationalists, Baptists and Catholics,have all comfortable church buildings. Theschool accommodations, owing to the rapidgrowth of the city, have recently been en-larged. At first sight th

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