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Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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nnel pierces the mountains a distance of 3,500 feet, at an elevation of5,572 feet above the ocean. Some months before the completion of thework a short, steep grade track was laid over the summit of the passfor temporary use. It is far more agreeable to ride over the mountainthan through it, and there are glorious views in every direction. Thetrain runs down the western slope in the wild defile of Rock Canon,passing out into the broad, fertile valley of the West Gallatin, atElliston, near the military post of Fort Ellis, twenty-two miles from Liv-ingston. Bozeman—(141 miles from Billings; population, 3,000)—the county-seat of Gallatin County, is situated near the eastern end of the GallatinValley, at its narrowest point. North of the city the mountains are about * Tourists are recommended to obtain a Manual, descriptive of the YellowstoneNational Park, profusely illustrated, which was prepared by the compiler of this volume,and is published by Messrs. G, P. Putnams Sons, New York.
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Montana Division. 181 three miles distant, but the range suddenly diverges in the same direction,and afterwards the valley becomes twenty miles in width. Bozeman is lheoldest established town on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad inMontana, the town-site having been laid out in July, 1864. In August ofthat year a well-known frontiersman, John Bozeman, reached the place incharge of a party of emigrants, who were so impressed with the beauty andfertile soil of the valley that they determined to go no further. The townwas named in honor of this pioneer, who was murdered three years after-wards by Indians in the Yellowstone Valley. For the first year or two thegrowth of Bozeman was slow. In 1865 a mill was put in operation, andtwo years afterwards Fort Ellis, situated two and a half miles east of thetown, was established and garrisoned by three companies of United Statestroops. The gradual increase of population in the Gallatin Valley was soonevident, settlers coming in from the su

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