. Our new West : records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean ; over the plains--over the mountains--through the great interior basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and down the Pacific Coast ; with details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines, business, social life, progress, and prospects ... including a full description of the Pacific Railroad ; and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese ; with map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations . OdVtC U8»>«Yf. Q-<!O Ph ao o-<M III. THE PACIFIC The Story of the Pacif
. Our new West : records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean ; over the plains--over the mountains--through the great interior basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and down the Pacific Coast ; with details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines, business, social life, progress, and prospects ... including a full description of the Pacific Railroad ; and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese ; with map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations . OdVtC U8»>«Yf. Q-<!O Ph ao o-<M III. THE PACIFIC The Story of the Pacific Railroad—The Pullman Cars—Omaha andCouncil Bluffs—Over the Plains by Rail—Cheyenne—The MountainPass and its various Revelations of Plain, Desert and Mountain—The Architecture of Wind, Rain and Sand—Echo and Weber Can-yons—Around Salt Lake and Across the Great Interior Basin—Scenes along the Route—Up and over the Sierra Nevadas—DonnerLake—The Greatest Triumph in Railroad Building in the World—Through California—The Continental Railroad Reviewed and Sum-med up—Its Beginning, its Execution and its Results. So completely is tlie Pacific Railroad henceforththe key to all our New West; so thoroughly must allknowledge of the characteristics of the latter radiateout from the former as a central line, that its storyshould be told almost at the outset, even to the antici-pation of earlier experiences. Marked, indeed, was thecontrast between the stasre ride of 1865 and the Rail-road ride of 1
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