. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . on, one public schooloccupying a building that cost $20,000, one selectschool or academy, four churches, two banks, acounty court house that cost $40,000,
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . on, one public schooloccupying a building that cost $20,000, one selectschool or academy, four churches, two banks, acounty court house that cost $40,000, and several coal mines. The Revere House, by Shercllff, and The Mansion, by C. T. Blake, furnish transientguests with good accommodations at $2 per , 25 miles south, is reached weekly by 6tage. Scranton, 379 miles west of Chicago, is three 22 The North and West Illustrated. miles south of Coon river, that furnishes mostexcellent fishing for pike, bass, pickerel, etc. Thevillage has about 400 population, one school, inhouse that cost $5,000, and one hotel—The HunterHouse, by F. Foster, who charges $2 per chickens abound here. Glidden, 389 miles west of Chicago, has a popu-lation of 400, and is in the midst of one of thebest shooting regions of Iowa. Two considerablerivers run within five miles, along the banks ofwhich are large tracts of timber, that are full1of deer, wild turkeys, ana other forest game, while. The Head of the Boyer, near Dennison, Iowa—page 23 (Engraved by J. H. Bond & Co., Chicago.) the contiguous prairies abound with prairie chick-ens, snipe, woodcock, quail, and small game, andthe rivers, creeks, and bayous are full of ducks,geese and brant. It has been called the sports-mans paradise, and if numbers of birds, andgreat variety constitute such a place, it is notbadly named. The village has a good school, onechurch, a public hall that will seat 300 persons, andtwo hotels—The Glidden House, by N. D. Thur-man, and The Dedrick, by J.
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