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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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that were soon to bear the ironhorse were laid past the town on the 9th day ofMay, 1868, and on the day following, the firsttrain arrived and discharged its freight. Lara-mie maintained the character of all these west- who were respectable, and who desired to do alegitimate business could not endure for a longtime, the presence and rascalities of these bordercharacters. There being no law in force, thenext best thing was a resort to lynch law.This was the experience of Laramie. Laramie is now an orderly, well-governed city,where the rights of person and property are re-spected, and forcibly reminds one of the quiettowns in the East. All saloons and other placesof like character, are closed on the Sabbath, thechurches are well attended, and the schools are lib-erally patronized. It is one of the most attrac-tive towns on the line of the Union Pacificroad, and offers many advantages to those whodesire, for any reason, a change of location. In addition to other public institutions else-
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EARLY MORNING SCENE ON THE LARAMIE PLAINS. ern towns in the early days of their settlement.The same class of human beings that had popu-lated and depopulated North Platte, Julesburg,Cheyenne, and other places, lived and flourishedhere until the next move was made. They weregamblers, thieves, prostitutes, murderers—badmen ami women of every calling and descriptionund sr the heavens, and from almost every nation-ality on the globe—and when they could preyupon no one else, would, as a matter of course,prey upon each other. The worst that has everbeen written of these characters does not depictthe whole truth; thtvy were, in many cases, out-laws from the East—fled to escape the conse-quences of crimes committed there, and eachmin was ;i law unto himself. Armed to the veryteeth, it was simply a word and a shot, andmany times the shot came first. Of course those where mentioned, Laramie has the location ofthe territorial penitentiary, a small wing ofwhich is already constructed, and w

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