. 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 . — and so wepass rapidly gap beginsto open in thewest, and wesoon emergefrom one of thegrandest scenesin nature, intothe lovely val-ley below, re-claimed by thehands of menfrom the barrenwaste of a des-ert, and madeto bud an dblossom as therose. We havenow passed theW a h s a t c hRange of mount-ains, thoughtheir toweringpeaks are on theright, and re-cede from viewon the left, aswe leave theirbase and getout into the plain. We are now in the Great SaltLake Basin, or Valley; and, though the lake itselfis not in sight, the mountains on its islands mountains, back of Ogden, are almostalways crowned with snow, and frequently havetheir summits enveloped in clouds. They arestorm-breeders—-every one, and the old StormKing sometimes holds high carnival among them,when From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,Leaps the live thunder. The winds and storms of winter occasionallyfill the craggy gap through which we have passedwith snow, to such an extent that it slides like. DEVILS SLIDE.—WEHEB CANOX. an avalanche down over the tr
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