Identifier: northwestillustr1876chic (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Chicago and North Western Railway Company Stennett, W. H. (William H.), 1832-1915
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago & North-Western Railway Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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icinity. West Menasha, 209 miles from Chicago, is ajoint depot at the crossing of the Wisconsin Cen-tral Railroad, that here gives us rail connectionsfor GUV s Landing, Weyauwega, Waupaca, Amherst,Stevens Point, Marslifield and Worcester. Appleton, 214 miles north of Chicago. TheLower Fox River Valley embraces a section of 64 The North and West Illustrated. country situated between Lake Winnebago andGreen Bay. From northeast to southwest itextends a distance of 50 miles, and from northwestto southeast about 40 miles. The valley is inter-sected by the 44th parallel of latitude, and its cli-mate, therefore, is similar to that which obtains inSouthern Minnesota, Central Michigan, CentralNew York, and in the southern part of Vermontand New Hampshire. From the time of its earliestsettlement it has been noted for its health-givingelements. Even in early times it was free fromsectional epidemics. As a place of residence, the Fox River Valleypresents every attrition which is at all desirable.
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Pyramid Rock, Devils Lake, Wis., on C. & N.-W.Ry.—page 81 The scenery which borders the majestically-flowingstream, the variegated beauty of woodland andmeadow, and finely-cultivated farms, the pleasantundulations of valley and hillside, the roar of thecataract, the grace and curve and dash of the swift-rushing current, all combine to minister to theesthetic as well as to the practical wants of thepeople of this valley. In the centre of the valley of the Fox, throughwhich lay the celebrated pathway of La PereMarquette, down to the Mississippi—a valleywhich is thickly sifted with the ashes of the past,and is the heart of the historic interest of theState; the scene of her most bloody Indian wars,and the home of half her legends and traditions—in the centre of this valley has sprung up a swift civilization which has its outcome and expressionin Outagamie county. The capital city of thiscounty is the old Grand Chute of early times, orthe Appleton of to-day, a town long known to

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