. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . Wadsworth, a town of about 700 inhabitants, and onlythree hundred and twenty-eight miles from the end ofmy journey. Some large stores here do a flourishingbusiness. There are also several good hotels, in one of 512 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK. •which I was soon comfortably housed. For severaldays I had seen nothing but dreary, monotonous plains,
. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . Wadsworth, a town of about 700 inhabitants, and onlythree hundred and twenty-eight miles from the end ofmy journey. Some large stores here do a flourishingbusiness. There are also several good hotels, in one of 512 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK. •which I was soon comfortably housed. For severaldays I had seen nothing but dreary, monotonous plains,and now, almost another world opened to my view—aworld of beauty and sublimity. It was with reluc-tance I left Wadsworth and crossed the Truckee trees, green meadows, comfortable farmhouses, andwell-tilled fields, were pleasant to look upon, and withthe prospect of soon reaching my final destination, Irode on, and crossed the boundary into California. Truckee, although witliin the State of California, isin the Sierra Nevada, one hundred and twenty-onemiles from Sacramento. The village is handsomelybuilt, the surroundings picturesque and finely timbered,and there is a line of stashes runninoj to the beautifulLakes Tahoe and
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