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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' 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, U.S. 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
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ctive way to look at aprairie hen, for we must confess that after a sliceor two of the meat, as usually served at the eat-ing stations of the railroads, from which weescape with danger to our front teeth, and unsat-isfied stomachs, we can only exclaim distancelends enchantment. However tough the meat,if served on the table when first killed, yet if 25 kept till it grows gradually more tender, there isa wild, spicy flavor, which make them very agree-able eating. Buffalo meat and prairie hens arenot altogether reliable as viands of the railroaddining stations, still every one must try for him-self, with here and there a chance of findingsweet tender morsels. good an illustration as any, of the rapid growthof some of the western towns and counties. Thecounty was organized in the spring of 1869, twoyears after the railroad had passed through it,—with Schuyler as the county-seat. In the springof the present year, 1876, it has an assessed valu-ation of nearly $1,250,000. Evidences of sub-
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HUNTING PRAIRIE HENS. Ames—At present simply a side track, 535miles from Omaha, and 1,270 feet above the sea.This was formerly called Ketchum; but bears itspresent name from Oliver Ames, Esq., one of thebuilders of this railroad. Observe the size ofthe trees in the cotton-wrood groves and hedgesnear this place—all planted within the memoryof the oldest inhabitant. North Bend—61.5 miles from the easternterminus of the road, and 1,259 feet in elevation,a little less than the preceding station. This isa thriving little town, with several stores, hotel,lumber-yard, grain elevator, etc. It is soon tohave a bridge across the Platte River, which willmaterially increase its trade with SaundersCounty on the south. The opening of many farmsin its vicinity have made it quite a grain market.The town is so named from a northward bend inthe river, and it is the northernmost point on theUnion Pacific in the State of Nebraska. It isthe last town west in Dodge County. Rogers—is a side-track, w

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