Identifier: pacifictourist1877will (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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souls. Old iron barrel hoops,rusty tin cans, a few holes in the ground, a fewposts and stumps, and nearly or quite a hundrednameless graves in close proximity, are all that perior satisfaction it would give. The rail-road reached and passed Benton in July, 1868.The valley of the Platte River begins to be occu-pied by cattle men, as stock can be carriedthrough the severest winters, thus far experienced,without hay. It has superior advantages, notonly for grazing, but its numerous drawsor ravines afford friendly shelter in case of storms. Vteiv on the North Platte, near FortFred Steele.—The Platte River here is over700 miles from its mouth near Omaha, and has anelevation of 6,845 feet. Upon the plains it wasa wide, shallow stream, with sand-bars and shift-ing currents. Here it is a deep, clear, cold stream,and but little distant from its source among theperpetual snow banks of the Rocky Mountains. Grennville—is the next station, 703.7 milesfrom Omaha with an elevation of 6,560 feet
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VIEW ON THE PLATTE, NEAR FORT FRED STEELE now remain to mark the place where Bentonwas. It grew in a day, and faded out of sight asquickly. But it was a red-hot town while itlasted. A death, sometimes two or three ofthem, with corresponding burials, was the morn-ing custom. Whisky was preferred to water be-cause it was much easier to obtain, and unre-strained by civilized society or wholesome laws,the devil in men and women had full sway, andmade free exhibitions of his nature. The townwas three miles from the North Platte River,where all the water was obtained and hauledin, price ten cents per bucket, or one dollarper barrel. In that town, a drink of regular oldtangle-foot whisky, at two bits (twenty-five cents) would last a good deal longer thana bucket of water, to say nothing of the su- above the sea. It is simply a side track for themeeting and passing of trains. Passenger trainsseldom stop. The next station and the end ofa subdivision of the road is Hawlins,—named in honor of

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