. 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 . say a few words about thewestern end of the road, and to leave the easternend until we reach it from Milwaukee. Then, goingwest from Fond du Lac, we chang
. 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 . say a few words about thewestern end of the road, and to leave the easternend until we reach it from Milwaukee. Then, goingwest from Fond du Lac, we change cars at a jointdepot station, known as Fond du Lac Junction, and4 miles out reach Lamartine, with 1,600 people; 9 miles, with 2,000 people , Rosendale Green Lake is the next station, and is 6 mileswest of Ripon, and one mile from the post office—Dartford—which is half a mile from the ever-beau-tiful and ever-attractive Green Lake, so wellknown as a summer idling place. The natural scen-ery around Dartford is unrivaled in variety andbeauty. Groves of primeval grandeur, far stretch-ing prairies and extensive lake views greet the eyefrom every point. The grounds around the lakehave been terraced, furnished with swings, prome-nades, and otherwise ornamented, to render thempleasant and attractive. The lake averages a lengthof 15 miles, and a width of 3 miles. Its banks varyfrom beautiful grassy slopes to high rocky cliffs,. The Northwestern Hotel, Marquette, Mich., on C. &. —page 72. and West Rosendale, pretty little stations, and, 20miles from Fond du Lac, reach Ripon, a beautifullittle city of 3,500 inhabitants, with a history run-ning back to 1844, when Warren Chase and hisbrother Fourierites, under the name of the Wiscon-sin Phalanx, settled close by, and called their villageCeresco. In 1850 they disbanded, and the Ripon ofto-day began its existence. The city is in Fond duLac county, which was organized in 1839, and nowcontains over 50,000 inhabitants.
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