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Identifier: officialnorthern1899nort (find matches)
Title: The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railway Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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402 A Trip to Alaska. Alaska extends from a point six hundred miles north of thedividing line between the United States proper and the Britishpossessions to the shores of the Polar Sea, and as far west ofSan Francisco as the coast of Maine lies to the east. There is so much of romance associated with the idea of atrip to this far and mysterious Northland, so much that appealsto the imagination of even the most phlegmatic and sober-minded among us, that could it be brought home to theAmerican people, with the force and vividness of some greatand sudden event in contemporary history, that it is possibleto make comfortably and in?xpensively, within the narrowcompass of fourteen days, a voyage extending to within a fewdegrees of the Arctic circle and embracing many of the great-est wonders of that land of icebergs and glaciers, not all theships that sail American waters would be adequate for the con-veyance of the rush of travel that would at once ensue. So erroneous, however, are the pre

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