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Identifier: pacifictourist1879will (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
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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() ve.ssels ^n mue from Xew Yorkvia Ca(>e Horn, with imii, loeomotives, rails and
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SCLNKb IN OMAHA. 1.—General View of Omaha and the Missouri Valley. 2.—Po8t-Office. 3 —High School Buildiug. 4.—Grand Central Hotel. 5.—Missouri River Bridge. rolliiiij stock, ilestiiieJ for the Central PacificRailroad : and it is a curious fact, that on sev-eral consecutive days, more miles of track wereiroii^d by the railroad companies than it wasfossible foi an ox-team to draw a load over.And when at last the irreat road was completed,the fact suddenly flashe<l upon the nation thata road once so distrusted, and considered toogi^rantic to be possible, was constructed an actualdistance of 2,22\ miles, in lesn thun jice ijtfar^, ofwhich all but 10 miles was done l^etween Jan-uary 1, IS^tJ and May 10, lv)t)9—three yeari,j(jurmonths and ten days. OMAHA, Rail roads.—The first railroad that reachedthis city from the E;ist was the Chicasjo andXorth-NVestem.—the first train over it arrivin:^on Sunday, Januarj 17. 18H7. Then followed theKansas City, Coimcil Blufifs and St.

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  • bookid:pacifictourist1879will
  • bookyear:1876
  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Williams__Henry_T
  • bookauthor:Shearer__Frederick_E
  • booksubject:Union_Pacific_Railroad_Company
  • booksubject:Central_Pacific_Railroad_Company
  • booksubject:Railroad_travel
  • bookpublisher:New_York___H_T__Williams
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • bookleafnumber:19
  • bookcollection:americana
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