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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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nfined to a re-gion of territorylying between,the forks of theCheyenne river.In addition tothe gulch andplacer diggings,already discov-ered, there havebeen a few dis-coveries of whatappears to berich quartz lodesof gold and veinsof silver. Thisregion is aboutone hundredmiles long andeighty mileswide. FrenchCreek, SpringCreek, RapidCreek, Box-elderCreek, Elk Creekand others headin these Hills,and flow mainly in an eastern direction, emptyinginto the south fork of the Cheyenne. The northfork seems to hug the hills pretty closely withsmall creeks and streams, yet unexplored, head-ing in the mountains and flowing into it. Thenorth fork heads in Pumpkin Butte, some mount-ains a little north-west of Fort Fetterman, onthe North Platte River. West of the northernportion of the Black Hills, there are severalranges of mountains and several streams whichflow north into the Yellowstone River. All ac-counts of this region of country, as far west as theBig Horn Mountains, unite in the report of its
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AGNES PARK.—BLACK HILLS. rich mineral character, and we believe the richestmineral discoveries ever known on this continentwill be made here in the next few years. Mow to get to the Blaek Hills.—Thisis a hard question to answer, from the fact thatso many towns claim superior advantages asoutfitting points. Sioux City, Yankton andFort Randall, on the Missouri River, are goodpoints to start from, provided you desire a longoverland trip. In Nebraska, Omaha, Fremont,Wisner,—the present terminus of the ElkhornValley Railroad,—have advantages. At Colum-bus, you. can follow up the Loup to its forks, and then up thenorth fork overthe divide intothe Niobrara Val-ley, and so on tillyou reach Spot-ted-Tails Agen-cy. From GrandIsland you willgo to the forks ofthe Loup, wherethe route is thesame as from Co-lumbus. Theforks are twentymiles north ofGrand Island.The next placeafter Grand Isl-and for a start-ing-point isNorth Platte. Ithas a bridgeacross the NorthPlatte river, andclaims to hav

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