. Through Colorado and Yellowstone Park to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909 . es undaunted by storm or drought; there are the stock-growerand the cowboy with his sombrero, his lasso and bronco;there is the sheepherder, who keeps his lonely vigil frommonth to month, with no sound other than the bleating ofhis charges; then there are the types of Mexicanos, thehalf-breeds and the Indians, and, almost as picturesque,the peasant immigrant, working in the boundless sugar-beetfields of Colorado; then there are in the cities countlessinteresting types of miners and speculators, who,
. Through Colorado and Yellowstone Park to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909 . es undaunted by storm or drought; there are the stock-growerand the cowboy with his sombrero, his lasso and bronco;there is the sheepherder, who keeps his lonely vigil frommonth to month, with no sound other than the bleating ofhis charges; then there are the types of Mexicanos, thehalf-breeds and the Indians, and, almost as picturesque,the peasant immigrant, working in the boundless sugar-beetfields of Colorado; then there are in the cities countlessinteresting types of miners and speculators, who, in a day,have risen to great wealth. On the prairies are the sod-houses used by pioneer farmers; in the hills are minersshacks on some forlorn claim, or the shaft house of somehopeful mine. The prosperous fruit raisers, the roughand hardy lumber jacks, the fisher, and, finally, the hun-dreds of picturesque types that will pour in from the head-waters of the Yukon and from the mountains and minesof Alaska to complete the collection. Along with the fascination of this kaleidoscopic flow of n. The Temple, Salt Lake City- humanity there is the interest attaching to the engineeringwonders of the railroad, which winds in and out of thecanyons, shooting across dizzy heights and boring throughsolid rock. Again there is the strange and vivid contrastof the West with itself. There are the mountains and wilder-nesses of Colorado, the deserts of Utah and the mountainsof the far Northwest, all of sublime and awful projjortionsand grandeur, and all inspiring the same emotions in differentways. On the Way Through Colorado Colorado itself is sufficient attraction to call thousandsWest every summer, but it is only one of the many splendidfeatures offered by the Rock Island-Frisco Lines en routeto the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Colorado is thegreat out-of-doors land. The air is an elixir of youthand one may tramp or climb all day long without becomingfatigued. The Rock Island is the only
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