. Crofutt's trans-continental tourist's guide : containing a full and authentic description of over five hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government forts and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, summer resorts; where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer, and other games; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing - where to see it - where to go - how to go - and whom to stop with while passing over the Union Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad of Cal., their branches and connections by s
. Crofutt's trans-continental tourist's guide : containing a full and authentic description of over five hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government forts and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, summer resorts; where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer, and other games; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing - where to see it - where to go - how to go - and whom to stop with while passing over the Union Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad of Cal., their branches and connections by stage and water, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Illustrated .. . ey lies in Rich county, the mostnorthern county in Utah Territory, andis about 25 miles long, with a varyingwidth. The lake, from which it takes itsname, is in reality a widening of Bearriver. It isabout 15 miles long by sevenwide, and contains plenty of trout andother fish. There are some pretty Slor-mon settlements at different points alongthe lake shore. There is a report, which is stronglybelieved by some of the old settlers, aadit is sustained by Indian tradition, thatacquatic monsters, whose shapes are dif-ficult to describe—inhabit these this be the case or not, we donot pretend to say, but this we do know,we never saw them. The entire region is wild and pic-turesque, and would well repay thetourist for the time spent in visiting SO miles distaut, to the north, arethe far-famed Soda Springs of Idaho,situated iu Oneida county. Idaho Terri-tory. The usual routes by which this valleyis reached are ma Ogden or the former the route is shorter; by. CROPUTT S TBANS-CONTINENTAL TOURIST S GUIDE. 89 tlif latter a better road. Suould we leaveOijden, we proceed up Ofrden canyontor 12 miles, across Oi^den valley, andover a rou^b niouDlain road, a distanceof over 80 milea fiirtber, into Bear LakeValley. If by way of Corinue, we proceed toBrifiUain City, four miles distant, and
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