. 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 . e aboutsix inches wide,turned up infront like ther u n n e r of askate, and wax-ed to makethem slip easi-ly over thesnow. !Near themiddle is aleather thatlaces over theinstep (a skele-ton half-shoe),and out ofwhich the footwill slip in caseof a fall or acci-dent. A long poleis carried likea rope-dancersto preserve abalance, and tostraddle and situpon for abrake, whendescending ahill. They areessential tosafety in thesestorms. As I watched the falling snow, nothing couldexceed the beauty. As it curled and shotthrough the air, the mountains were shut out■with a gauzy veil and darker mists. Now andthen I caught a glimpse of a clump of pines onthe mountain side, indistinct and gray in shadow,and as the fitful snow favored the straining eye,the long white boughs seemed bending as if con-scious of the enormous weight that threatenedevery living thing. When the clouds broke suddenly away, a floodof golden light leaped from hill to hill. The tallpines, partly green, but now like pyramids of. MARYS LAKE, MIRKOR VIEW. snow, lift their heads above the
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