. 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 . re peace has undisturbed domains;And here a rural, peaceful raceHas found a fair abiding place;Its homes and plazas, simple, rude,The walls of stately pine trees hewed,Or rough adobes, crudely roofs with * dirt securely tiled,Are primitive, and cool and against the winters gainst the suns devouring raysWhen with the summers heat ablaze. [There, that is the first poetry we ever AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 75 quoted, and it tliereader will excuseus this time, we willpledge never to becauglit doing soagain.] Wahatoya — is ^the next station, g,and a very appro-^priate one it is. Itis 6 9-10 milessouth of the left, afterleaving the station,a beautiful viewcan be had of theSpanish Peaks. Thealtitude of the eastpeak is 12,720 feet;that of the west peakis 13,620 feet. Con-tinuing a little far-ther, we have a fineview of Yeta andthe Sangre de Chris-to Mountains on theright. From thelast station it is8 2-10 miles toLaVeta—The firstsettler in this sec-. OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS—SEE ANNEX NO. , tion of country was Col. Francisco, a Span-ish gentleman who came to La Veta 19years ago, and built the house that henow lives in. La Yeta is situated at an elevation of6,970 feet
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