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Title: A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route."
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally & co., printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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State. DENVER. Denver is the social and commercial centre, not alone of Colorado, but alsoof the outlying Territories, and is called the Queen City of the Plains. Itselevation is 5,170 feet above the sea-level. It is the gate to the mineral andscenic phenomena that have made the Rocky Mountains famous. In additionto its other advantages, it has a peerless climate, more conducive to outdoorenjoyment than any other known locality. It is situated on the plains at thefoot, and almost within, the shadow, of the Mighty Hills, which protect italike from the extremes of summer and winter weather. The streets are longand level, and on either side are rows of shade trees—nourished by streams ofrunning water—casting a shade alike upon the mansion and the cottage.There is not a paved street in the city, nor one in which the natural roadwayhas been improved, and there is no other city whose thoroughfares are assmooth and solid. Its hotels are excellent; in fact, they have all the improve- (37)
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(28) FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE. 29 ments and modern conveniences possessed by the large hotels in the East, andthe best ones would be first class even in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, orBoston. From Denver there is an unbroken view of the Rocky Mountains for nearlythree hundred miles, reaching from beyond Longs Peak on the north to thehistorical summit of Pikes Peak on the south. This lovely mountain view isan everyday affair to the citizens of Denver, but nowhere in the world can itsbeauty and grandeur be surpassed. The Union Pacific runs two solid trains each way daily between CouncilBluffs and Denver, and two solid trains each way daily between Kansas Cityand Denver. IDAHO SPRINGS. Idaho Springs, 7,543 feet above the sea-level, is a beautiful place located inClear Creek Caiion. It is reached from Denver, via Golden, on the ColoradoCentral Branch of the Union Pacific. In so far as nature equips resorts, Idaho Springs is the finest that the RockyMountains afford. It is thirty-seven mil

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