. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and
. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone . sas Val-leys, and where a few years since, travelers couldsee countless thousands of them from the carwindows and platforms, on either the UnionPacific, Kansas Pacific or Atchison, Topeka &Santa Fe Railroads, they now, probably will seebut few, if any. Their hides have been shippedEast, where they make a poor quality of only which are taken late in the fall andduring the winter months of January and Febru-ary, are fit for robes. The hair at this season ofthe year, is thick and firmly set. About the time this killing process began in1870, Mr. Clother entered upon the work of tan-ning robes, employing for this purpose the squawsof the Pawnee and Omaha tribes. The Pawneereservation was only a short distance from Co-lumbus, and the Bucks were glad of theopportunity of employment for their is beneath their dignity, and they despise this, tanning robes is hard and slow work,and in their opinion, just fit for squaws. For a 28 TWE ^m€iFl€ TQW^iBW,. >^X^ few years the squaws of both of the tribes named,have
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