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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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hundred milesvaries in width from five to fifteen miles.Through nearly all its eastern course, this riverhugs the bluffs on its southern side. These bluffsas well as those more distant on the northern sideof the valley, are plainly visible from the cars.Before the road was built, this valley was thegreat highway of overland travel to Colorado,Utah, California, and Oregon. Immense trainsof wagons, heavily freighted, have passed over it,in tlieir slow and tedious journeyings towardsthe setting sun. Leaving the Missouri at differ-ent points, the routes nearly all converged in thePlatte Valley, and thence westward to their des-tination. The luxuriant grasses, and the prox-imity to water, made this the favorite route. Ithas also been the scene of deadly conflicts withthe savages, and the bones of many a wandererlie bleaching in the air, or are buried beneathsome rough and hastily-made mound near thebeaten road. But a wonderful change took placewith the advent of the road. The bull-whacker,
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REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. WMM ^^€£Fi€ T&WmiBW, 25 with his white-covered wagon and raw-bonedoxen—his slang phrases, aiul profane expressions,his rough life, and in many instances violentdeath—the crack of his long lash that would ringout in the clear morning air like that of a rifle, andhis wicked goad or prod—an instrument of tor-ture to his beasts—with all that these thingsimply, have nearly passed away. Their gloryhas departed, and in their place is the siaortingengine and the thundering train. The remarkable agricultural advantages ofthis valley are everywhere visible, and it israpidly filling up with an industrious and thriftyclass of faimers. The land grant of the UnionPacific Company extnids for twenty miles oneither side of the road, and includes every alter-nate section of land that was not taken at thetime it was withdrawn from the market, for thebenefit of the company. If you pass a long dis-tance in the first two hundred miles of th

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