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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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to note the beauties of the wonderful glow-ing sunlight, and the occasional cloud-storms,and wild display of power and glory. We know of no country better worth the titleof the Switzerland of America than Colorado,with its beautiful mountain parks, valleys, andsprings. Go and see them all. The tour will beworthy of remembrance for a life-time. The editor of this Guide expects soon to issueThe Colorado Tourist, devoted more especially tothe attractions of Colorado, as the limits of thisGuide can not begin to possibly describe a hun-dredth part of the objects of interest within thatlittle region—a world of pleasure travel by itself. Of Life in Colorado,—a prominent writerhas said: At Denver I found, as I thought, thegrade of civilization actually higher than in mostWestern cities. In elegance of building, in fin-ish, in furniture, in dress and equipages, thatcity is not behind any this side of the Atlanticborder. The total absence of squalidity and vis- 78 TMM @3i@IFI@ T@&®Z8T.
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MOUNTAIN OF THE HOLY CROSS, COLORADO. tse &&gifig wmmi&w. ible poverty, and I may also say of coarsenessand rowdyism, impressed me on my visit verystrongly, as did the earnestness, activity and in-tensity of life which is everywhere so apparent. P. T. Barnum once said of Colorado, in a lec-ture : Why, Coloradoans are the most disap-pointed people I ever saw. Two-thirds of themcame here to die, and tliey cant do it. Thiswonderful air brings them back from the vergeof the tomb, and they are naturally exceedinglydisappointed. The average temperature is about G0° the yearround—the air is bracing, winter mild, and daysalmost always full of clear skies and bright warmsunshine. The purity and dryness of the atmos-phere are proverbial. Mountain of the Hoi if Cross.—The nameof this remarkable mountain is renowned to theends of the earth, and is the only one with thisname in the world. It is the principal mountainof the Sawatch Range, just west of the MiddlePark of Colorado, an

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