. Through Colorado and Yellowstone Park to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909 . -hended in the route offered by the Rock Island-Frisco Linesto Seattle, returning either by way of their SouthernRoute through delightful California and El Paso,the line of lowest altitudes and longest levelstretches, or by way of the northern lines to St. Pauland Minneapolis, which are themselves pleasantsummer resorts. The traveler may see everything,from the villages that the prairie dogs build in thedesert to the cities that men have raised from thewilderness, or have perched on sheer abysses. N
. Through Colorado and Yellowstone Park to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909 . -hended in the route offered by the Rock Island-Frisco Linesto Seattle, returning either by way of their SouthernRoute through delightful California and El Paso,the line of lowest altitudes and longest levelstretches, or by way of the northern lines to St. Pauland Minneapolis, which are themselves pleasantsummer resorts. The traveler may see everything,from the villages that the prairie dogs build in thedesert to the cities that men have raised from thewilderness, or have perched on sheer abysses. Norneed the tourist be content with only seeing thesewonders from the car window. There is ampleand generous provision made for stop-overs at allthe central points of interest, and from these thereare countless one-day trips that may be made toadjoining attractions. The Picturesque West First of all in interest to the traveler are thepeople. The West is full of bold-hearted, loyalAiTiericans, who are the foundation stones of thenation. There is the farmer, whose spirit has been ^^IVC p^^w^?^. Hjlfti Glenwood Springs —in the Heart of the Rockies 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-
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