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Title: Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: Boston : John B. Bachelder
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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nt west of Omaha is advised to correspond first with ThomasL. Kimball, Esq., Omaha, Keb , General Passenger Agent of the Union Pacific Railroad.The frequent changes in rontes, excursion-rates, &c., make it desirable to receive thelatest information from headquarters. 342 POPULAU RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. The geysers project water with terrific force, and in fabulous quanti-ties, and in every conceivable form, to heights varying from twenty totwo hundred and fifty feet. These seen in the rays of the middaysun, or in the;beams of afull moon ,are inexpress-ibly grand.It is fifteenmiles fromthe basin toYellowstoneLake. ....The lake isnearly eightthousand feetabove theocean. Itis twenty-five milesin length,embosomedamid moun-tains, gemmedwith greenislands, inform unique,and surround-ed on all sidesby hot springsin great vari-ety, number,and beauty.Jets of steam•may be seenissuing fromhot springs,from the isl-a n d s, evenfrom the bo-som of the lake itself,mountain-ridges on the
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GIANT GEYbERYellowstone Park, Montana Ter itory Some of the loftiest and most inaccessiblecontinent lift their snow-clad summits in theimmediate vicinity. The scenery is colossal and full of savage grandeur. )IH liKSOUTS, AN I KKACIl niK.M. •.U:i Following down the river from the foot of the lake nine miles, weTeach Sii/phiir Mountain, Mud Gejiser, Muil Volcano, and the PAowing Carp)II, all ohiect^ of sppaiate interest

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