. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . :^ ^. longs peak from estes park. enter the shed; it seems like passing through atunnel. In the distance there are mountainsto the right of you, and mountains to theleft of you, but we shall see more of them here-after. Leaving the snow shed we are now on adown grade into Crow Creek Valley, which hours before reaching Cheyenne, the snow-cladsummit
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . :^ ^. longs peak from estes park. enter the shed; it seems like passing through atunnel. In the distance there are mountainsto the right of you, and mountains to theleft of you, but we shall see more of them here-after. Leaving the snow shed we are now on adown grade into Crow Creek Valley, which hours before reaching Cheyenne, the snow-cladsummit of this bold peak, rising above the dis-tant horizon. It is about sixty miles south-westof the Union Pacific Railroad, and the highestmountain in northern Colorado. The view wehere give is taken from Estes Park; a beautiful 62 TME ^maswrn tqwmsbw. little park on its north-western slope, and abouttwelve miles distant iioni the sumnut. Tliispark is about four miles wide, and six miles long,is well sheltered, easy of access, and beautifullycovered with pine and spruce trees, scatteredeasily about over the grassy surface, which givesto it a true park-like loveliness. It is partiallyoccupied by a few families who have taken uppermanent homesteads, and
Size: 1632px × 1530px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectcentralpacificrailro
