. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; 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, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and c
. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; 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, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona . Platte. Thisvalley was once a favorite hunting-groundof the Sioux and Cheyennes, who long re-sisted the attempts of the Government to re-move them to a reservation to the northward. Passing on up a dry ravine 6 3-10 miles,we come to Barns—another small side-track—andnothing .else—which is 5 7-10 miles from Hillsdale—When the road was beingconstructed from this place to Cheyenne, alarge amount of freight was re-shippedfrom here on wagons. Then, it was a busyplace, now, only a water-tank and side-track. The station was named after a , one of the engineering party who waskilled near this place by the Indians whilehe was engaged in locating the presentsite of the road. About 50 miles to the south is Fre-monts Orchard, on the South PlatteRiver, about 60 miles below Denver City,Colorado, and in that State. It wasnamed after Col. J^remont, who discoveredthe point in his exploring expedition. Itconsists of a large grove of cottonwoodtrees, mostly on the south side of the MONUMENT ROCK, BLACK HILLS, The river here makes an abrupt bend tothe north, then another to the south, cut-ting its way through a high range of sand-hills—the third range from the MissouriRiver. Where the river
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