The Pacific tourist (1879) (14574617889)

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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

Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF THE UNION PACIEIC RAILROAD. TSm ^^CiFiG TOUmtST. 23 follows:—At the time of the opening of the IPiki-s Ptuk exfit«;intMit in j^old dij,tjiiij^s, two jnioHfMMH niude themselves conspicuous ))y paint-ing in large letters on the side of their wagoncover :— Pikes Peak or Bust. in their haste U) !reach this, the newly discovered Eldorado, theyscorned all safety and protection olfered Ijy tiit; train and traveled alone, and on their ownho(jk. For days and weeks they escaped the dangersattending their folly, and passed unharmed untilthey reached the roving grouiul of the hloodySioux. Here they were surrounded and cruelly ;and want<inly murdered ; their bodies were driventhrough with arrows, and pinned to the earth,and left to the sunshine and storms of theskies. Fremont—is 40.5 miles from Omaha, andhas an elevation of 1,170 feet. It is the county-seat of Dodge County, and has a )X)))ulation offull :3,00(). In the year 187.3, over §1(J(J,00U wereexpended in bu

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