. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . -legged, black coach waited to carry us to the it we filed, and rode up hill and down, stoppingonly long enough to shy a leathern mail-bag at a
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . -legged, black coach waited to carry us to the it we filed, and rode up hill and down, stoppingonly long enough to shy a leathern mail-bag at anindividual supposed to represent the postmaster,who stood in front of an unofficial-looking building,labeled Post Office. This was in the town of Dart-ford, the county seat, and quite a pretty passed through it, and rode on through a lineof dark woods, by a pleasant country road, till a The Chicago & North-Western Railway, 61 mile of distance was between us and the depot,when the omnibus drew up with a flourish at theOakwood House. It was not till I had breakfasted next morning,and stood, hat in hand, on the piazza of the Oak-wood, that I realized what a lovely dimple in thebosom of Nature I had fallen into. On every handrose grassy slopes or cliffs, of unmistakable grand-eur. Wooded acres made a dark, rich background,against which were placed the beautiful villas ofart and civilization; while far, far in the distance. City of Marquette, Mich.—page Reached only via C. & Ry. gleamed, with the opaline light, the waters of GreenLake, that nestled at our feet. At every glancesome new feature of beauty was added; a white-winged ship; a tent, white and fair, amid the greenfoliage of the banks; the blue, curling smoke ofan Indian encampment, just across the narrowestturn of the lake; and, directly near, the handsomegrounds of Oakwood House, ornamented withswings and rustic seats, and summer houses, andcroquet lawns, with a spice of evergreens in the air,and a buoya
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